On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 skidmore@macconnection.net wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 21 2003 at 18:33 PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> I put back the '\' at the end of the 'if' line, and I am now printing again,
> however with stair-stepping.  My printcap now looks like this:
> 
> lp|local line printer:\
>         :sh:\
>         :if=/usr/libexec/filters/hpif:\
>         :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:rp=lj:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
> 
> I tried the filter that was suggested by Richard (see below), however that 
> did not cure the stair-stepping problem.

Hmm. Funny. That awk program should add a CR for each line, in addition to
the LF.

> Is it time for magic filter, as suggested by Johnny?

With magicfilter, text files will be processed by a2ps, so you should be
happy then.

	Johnny

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