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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: "sideways" for unix?
Keywords: is there one?
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Date: 14 Dec 88 07:22:28 GMT
References: <565@whizz.uucp> <9@ylwpig.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
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In article <9@ylwpig.UUCP> jep@ylwpig.UUCP (James E. Prior) writes:
>In article <565@whizz.uucp> bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes:
>>Can anyone say if there is a program out there for unix machines which allows
>>sideways printing of very wide docs (e.g. spreadsheets)?
>>
>>We have an ATT 3B1, os 3.51a, and a Panasonic 1080i.
>
>If you can get your spreadsheet to output to a file, instead of directly to
>the printer, it can be a simple matter of using the cut program.  It is
>standard with UNIX.  That and some shell scripts should take care of your 
>problem.  
>
>If you truly want to print out sideways, then you will have to do a great deal
>of work.

Well, that depends on your resources. As it turns out, there was a WONDERFUL
program posted to csu or csm, called "rot". It will rotate text around every
way you can possibly think of.

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