10-23-2001
try man fold
If that utility is installed on your system, I think it'll be exactly what you want. You can cat the file out, pipe it throught fold (I think the syntax woiuld be like fold -80, for 80 lines. The man page is more accurate than I am, though), then send it to lp.
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FOLD(1) User Commands FOLD(1)
NAME
fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
SYNOPSIS
fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Wrap input lines in each FILE (standard input by default), writing to standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --bytes
count bytes rather than columns
-c, --characters
count characters rather than columns
-s, --spaces
break at spaces
-w, --width=WIDTH
use WIDTH columns instead of 80
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report fold translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for fold is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and fold programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'fold invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 FOLD(1)