Annotation of 43BSDTahoe/man/man1/pr.1, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)pr.1        6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH PR 1 "April 29, 1985"
                      8: .UC 4
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: pr \- print file
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B pr
                     13: [ option ] ...
                     14: [ file ] ...
                     15: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     16: .I Pr
                     17: produces a printed listing of one or more
                     18: .I files.
                     19: The output is separated into pages headed by a date,
                     20: the name of the file or a specified header, and the page number.
                     21: If there are no file arguments,
                     22: .I pr
                     23: prints its standard input.
                     24: .PP
                     25: Options apply to all following files but may be reset
                     26: between files:
                     27: .TP
                     28: .BI \- n
                     29: Produce
                     30: .IR n -column
                     31: output.
                     32: .TP
                     33: .BI + n
                     34: Begin printing with page
                     35: .I  n.
                     36: .TP
                     37: .B  \-h
                     38: Take the next argument as a page header.
                     39: .TP
                     40: .BI \-w n
                     41: For purposes of multi-column output,
                     42: take the width of the page to be
                     43: .I n
                     44: characters instead of the default 72.
                     45: .TP
                     46: .BI \-f
                     47: Use formfeeds instead of newlines to separate pages.
                     48: A formfeed is assumed to use up two blank lines at the top of a page.
                     49: (Thus this option does not affect the effective page length.)
                     50: .TP
                     51: .BI \-l n
                     52: Take the length of the page to be
                     53: .I n
                     54: lines instead of the default 66.
                     55: .TP
                     56: .B  \-t
                     57: Do not print the 5-line header or the
                     58: 5-line trailer normally supplied for each page.
                     59: .TP
                     60: .BI \-s c
                     61: Separate columns by the single character
                     62: .I c
                     63: instead of by the appropriate amount of white space.
                     64: A missing
                     65: .I c
                     66: is taken to be a tab.
                     67: .TP
                     68: .B  \-m
                     69: Print all
                     70: .I files
                     71: simultaneously,
                     72: each in one column,
                     73: .PP
                     74: Inter-terminal messages via
                     75: .IR write (1)
                     76: are
                     77: forbidden during a
                     78: .IR pr .
                     79: .SH FILES
                     80: /dev/tty?
                     81: to suspend messages.
                     82: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     83: cat(1)
                     84: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     85: There are no diagnostics when
                     86: .I pr
                     87: is printing on a terminal.

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