Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cbnap.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!cbnap!whp From: whp@cbnap.UUCP (W. H. Pollock x4575 3S235) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: With respect to "pr" Message-ID: <15@cbnap.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 12:39:58 EDT Article-I.D.: cbnap.15 Posted: Tue Jul 9 12:39:58 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 08:36:20 EDT References: <595@umd5.UUCP> <322@umcp-cs.UUCP> <2091@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <424@mtxinu.UUCP> <88@cithep.UucP> Reply-To: whp@cbnap.UUCP (W. H. Pollock x4575 3S235) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 6 Modifying pr (on sys VR2 anyway) is not reasonable! This program is so buggy, convoluted, and bizzare that the only reasonable thing to do is to rewrite it from scratch! I tried to fix a bug once, the -w option doesn't work unless you have more than two columns; simply removing the test for number of columns caused pr to stop printing the first line of random pages! (this fix was given to me by UNIX support people, and even they gave up on pr!)