CUPS Text Wrapping

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Matthew Walburn wrote:

> I was wondering if any users had experienced the following problem 
> with CUPS RHEL 3/Fedora 1.0
>
> I have a large number of Fedora clients printing to a RHEL 3 CUPS 
> server for their printing needs. Printing PostScript files works like 
> a charm, but I can't seem to get plaintext files to print correctly. 
> Instead of wrapping the lines when they extend past the right margin 
> they are getting cut off.
>
> Using enscript seems to work, but I can't tell my large amount of 
> users to change their printing habits just yet.
>
> Incidentally, this problem does not occur when Fedora Core 1 is 
> running as the main CUPS server, so I assume it's a problem with the 
> plaintext print filter... maybe texttops?
>
> -Matthew
>
> -- 
> Matthew Walburn, RHCE
> Computer Systems Specialist
> MIT Department of Mathematics - x. 3-4995
>
>
I suggest using aliases, like in everybodish .bashrc:
alias a2ps='a2ps -blah'

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