Forcing carriage return in unix

[kristolcrawley]

I know most people want to get rid of this BUT... how do I force a carriage return in unix. I'm creating a report that I'll send to the printer using lp. I tried putting ^M on the line but it just prints the actual characters. Also tried ^L & \n to no avail. Does it have to go at the end of a line? Can't I just pop the character(s) anywhere in the file and it'll jump to a new line when it see the characters?

Thanks for any help!

 

[PHV]

The carriage return char is:

 \r

or

 \015

.
If your printer is a PCL one, simply send

 \033&k2G

near the beginning of your report to force Lf to LfCr conversion.

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[SamBones]

Try using [tt]unix2dos[/tt], or whatever you have on your system to convert a text file from Unix format to DOS or PC format. This carriage return is what those programs are converting to change the text format.

Hope this helps.