[16916] in Athena Bugs
Re: M-x print-buffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jun 23 16:17:48 1999
To: Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
In-Reply-To: Jeremy Daniel's message of "Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:35:36 -0400 (EDT)"
Date: 23 Jun 1999 16:17:39 -0400
Message-Id: <u1hpv2msmcc.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU> writes:
> An extra sheet of blank paper comes out after my job if there are more
> than 83 colums. (The text wraps properly though.) Using lpr from the
> command-line doesn't have the same effect. emacs -q has the same
> effect
>
> athena% echo $PRINTER,$HOST,$LPROPT
> meadow,x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu,-h -z
The problem is that you should probably not be using M-x print-buffer,
which is equivalent to `lpr -p'. I suspect that the problem has
something to do with pr.
Thomas
