[clug] CUPS printing - wrong tabs?

Alastair D'Silva alastair at newmillennium.net.au
Fri Aug 6 20:02:03 GMT 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 10:20, Rousak, Boris wrote:
> Some text here.
> 					More text here
> 
> 							Last bit of text
> cu

This is a classic printing problem under *nix.

Unix uses line-feed to signify the end of a line, while printers expect
a carriage-return & line-feed. Run your file through unix2dos (or a
simple tr) to convert the characters before trying to print it.

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