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From: vtailor AT gte DOT net
Subject: Re: Quick and dirty lpr for text files
6 Jun 1998 19:04:38 -0700 :
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>   John F. Kolen (jkolen AT typhoon DOT coginst DOT uwf DOT edu)
>   Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:18:57 -0500
>       
>The following works well enough from Emacs and the command line (bash
>or MSDOG)
>for basic printing text files to the default printer.  It even supports
>piping (necessary for emacs).
>
What a cute little batch script.  Have you tried using a text formatter
like the pr program to pipe input to lpr?

Where did you get the reference to the /p notepad option?  The notepad help
files don't mention it, and `notepad /?' doesn't yield an answer either.
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