Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!micropro!mojo
From: mojo@micropro.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: "pr" for dos
Message-ID: <286@micropro.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 14:29:35 EST
Article-I.D.: micropro.286
Posted: Tue Feb 24 14:29:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 01:43:31 EST
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
Lines: 102
Summary: Have you ever wanted the UNIX pr on your PC?

This may seem silly.

Most of the time I find people with pretty printing utilities up the
wazoo.  But I always found myself returning to UNIX to get either
a multiple column listing, or several files listed simultaneously.
Seems like none of the pr utilities on DOS had those options.  So I
wrote one.

My object was to make it look as much like vanilla UNIX pr as possible.
Following is the (UNIX-style) manual page for my pr.  My object is
to see if there is enough interest for me to post the executable
and source.  None of it is tremendously large, but I'd rather find out
first.

"Weather is here.  Wish you were beautiful.  Please write."

==================================================================
MicroPro Standard Library                                       pr


NAME
     pr - print file

SYNOPSIS
     pr [ option ] ... [ file ] ...

DESCRIPTION
     Pr produces a printed listing of one or  more  files.    The
     output is separated into pages headed by a date, the name of
     the  file  or a specified header,  and the page number.   If
     there are no file arguments, pr prints its standard input.

     Options apply to all following files but may  be  reset  be-
     tween files:

     /n   Produce n-column output.

     /pn  Begin printing with page n.

     /h   Take the next argument as a page header.

     /wn  Take  the  width of the page to be n characters instead
          of the default 80.  (UNIX default is 72.)

     /f   Use formfeeds instead of newlines to separate pages.  A
          formfeed is assumed to use up two blank  lines  at  the
          top  of a page.   (Thus this option does not affect the
          effective page length.)

     /ln  Take the length of the page to be n  lines  instead  of
          the default 66.

     /t   Do  not  print  the 5-line header or the 5-line trailer
          normally supplied for each page.

     /sc  Separate columns by the single character c  instead  of
          by the appropriate amount of white space.   A missing c
          is taken to be a tab.

     /m   Print all files simultaneously, each in one column.

     /Tn  Take the width of a tab character to be  n  instead  of
          the default 8.

     Note the following differences between UNIX pr(1) and PC-DOS
     pr:

     .    The  switch character may be changed from `/' to `-' by
          the documented methods.

     .    The option structure  follows  the  conventions  estab-
          lished  by  AT&T for UNIX command options,  enforced by
          the use of the getopt() function.  Options that require

December 5, 1986                                            Page 1



MicroPro Standard Library                                       pr

          arguments (such as /l) may have white space between the
          option and the argument or not.  Several options may be
          concatenated behind a single `/' with  no  white  space
          separating them.

     .    More  than  9  columns  are not supported,  or 15 files
          printed simultaneously.

     .    The UNIX "+n" option is replaced by "/pn".

EXAMPLE

          pr /t /m filea fileb filec

     will print out the three files simultaneously,  each in  one
column, without headers.

AUTHOR

     Mojo Jones, mojo@micropro.UUCP

December 5, 1986                                            Page 2