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From: lutwak@athena.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: How to do this in VI....
Message-ID: <1991May1.204711.415@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 20:47:11 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.152450.18717@cec1.wustl.edu> abed@venus.wustl.edu (Abed M. Hammoud) writes:
>	Is there a way to pipe out the content of a buffer in Vi
>	to the printer.
>
	I don't know about a buffer, but I often do:

:.,.+n w !lp

where n is some number of lines that I want to print.