I am using mpage and want to assign the title myself using -h. However I still want to have the date and Page numbers when using -H.
In summary I want to have the same output as using -H (last file modification, filename and page number), however I want a way to change the filename using -h, for example -hfname, where fname is the file name without the path.
Is there a way to do this?
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Hi.
You probably noticed that mpage routes text through utility pr. The pr utility is very basic. You have a few possibilities for a solution. One, you could find a better utility than pr ( I use an old code from a statistics package for such work ) -- you need to be able to specify a kind of format that includes symbols for placing interesting data in the header, like date and file. Two, you could find a replacement for mpage, such as enscript, which allows flexibility like:
So, there is no really easy answer that I know of.
I am trying to use mpage. I want to print 4 pages on one page, with a specified margin.
I have tried
/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -lW160 -4AHPRanD_BW_1 jcdint.rc
Everything is ok. However it is printing in landscape rather than portrait. (2 Replies)