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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:09:13 -0500
From:      "rogermiller" <rogermiller@alumni.union.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   extra pages when printing text files using pr and lpr
Message-ID:  <200403112309.AA437977748@alumni.union.edu>

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Hi, all.

I write a lot of plain text files, and print them to a dot matrix
printer attached to my parallel port. To do so, I use the pr command
to add headers, as follows:
  pr -o 8 filename | lpr

The problem is that the system always generates an extra page [form
feed, I suppose] after the last page. If print *several* files at
the same time, the extra sheet only follows the last page.

Is there any way of suppressing this last blank page / formfeed?

Thanks.

p.s. If it matters, I'm running 4.9-RELEASE.                 



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