Anyone still use the a2ps(1) utility? I was in need to print some
formatted C source codes and tried to find some hard ways to go. Then I
have remembered that there must me something simple which I used in the
dark past.
And it is! The a2ps(1) is still available in the Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora
and so and it is rather easy to use:
It means that the "simul.c" source code was printed on an A4 paper
format with tabulator width set to 2 (the "-1" switch means I want just
1 page per A4 paper sheet because default is 2 pages). Without the "-o"
switch it will send the final PostScript code directly to the default
printer (and I don't think that my old office OKI monster can handle it
directly).
There can be a configuration file where the default switches can be
saved to ease user's life, of course (~/.a2psrc).
The a2ps is not new so it struggles with the UTF-8 encoding (it works
but headers and footers might include unnecessary mess). Thus I set the
LC_ALL=C before its use. Then everything is English/ASCII and it looks
as expected (it's UNIX after all so everything should be non-localised
by default, I think!).
