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Article #214Bug in pr
From: Alan Watson
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:36
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:36
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pr seems to have problems finishing the first column on the final page
of two-column output unless it is asked to balance the final page.
Version 1.3 running on a Decstation 5000/200 under Ultrix 4.2 and
compiled with gcc 2.1.
Try:
#! /bin/sh
# create a 100 line file called `input'
test -f input && rm input
touch input
for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do
for y in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do
echo $x$y >>input
done
done
# wc should always give 100 words.
wc <input # right
pr -2tb input | wc # right
pr -2t input | wc # wrong
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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!uwast.astro.wisc.edu!alan From: alan@uwast.astro.wisc.edu (Alan Watson) Subject: Bug in pr Message-ID: <9207232236.AA20571@uwast.astro.wisc.edu> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:36:08 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 27