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From: rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Richard Beach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: printer orientation or tab stops
Keywords: next laser printer
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.181443.25559@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 18:14:43 GMT
Sender: rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Richard Beach)
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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	I hope that someone else has managed to solve this little puzzle.

	I have source that was done up in vi with the tabs set to 4 spaces.
	I want to print it.
	It loses the ends of lines off the edge of the page.

	I've looked through manuals for several hours to find a solution.
	None of what I've tried has worked.
	The two types of solutions I've tried for have been:
	
	1)  getting lpr to set the tabstops to 4 characters instead of 8.
		It just doesn't seem to want to do that, but it sure
		seems like it ought to.

	2)  Changing some sort of default so that I get landscape mode with
		lpr.  I haven't played with this as much, but basically have
		tried a few permutations of:
		dwrite System PrinterOrientation LandScape
		This seems like it would sort of be a nice thing to do
		for other reasons too.

	So, has anyone managed either of these two things?  Would you please
let me in on the secret.  And, could you please let me know with e-mail,
since I am sort of busy finishing things up for the end of the semester right
now, and missing out on news.

	Thank you.

[sorry if I sound a bit short here, but I am.  Pnews and the machine have
 been less than cooperative this evening.]


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