"sideways" for unix?

[John B. Milton]

In article <9 at ylwpig.UUCP> jep at ylwpig.UUCP (James E. Prior) writes:
>In article <565 at whizz.uucp> bbh at whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes:
>>Can anyone say if there is a program out there for unix machines which allows
>>sideways printing of very wide docs (e.g. spreadsheets)?
>>
>>We have an ATT 3B1, os 3.51a, and a Panasonic 1080i.
>
>If you can get your spreadsheet to output to a file, instead of directly to
>the printer, it can be a simple matter of using the cut program.  It is
>standard with UNIX.  That and some shell scripts should take care of your 
>problem.  
>
>If you truly want to print out sideways, then you will have to do a great deal
>of work.

Well, that depends on your resources. As it turns out, there was a WONDERFUL
program posted to csu or csm, called "rot". It will rotate text around every
way you can possibly think of.

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