From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 18:58:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA00897 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA00891 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA22610 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:58:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:58:53 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pr(1) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I noticed the following output when I used pr(1)... lptest | pr -2 -t -w40 produces two colums of text, with a total width of 40 (as expected)... lptest | pr -1 -t -w40 produces one column of text, with no change in the totals width... am I missing something? (it is consistent across FreeBSD and Solaris) -- David Cross UNIX System Administrator GE CRD