question about a2ps --title

[Larry W. Virden]

Do other people find that with a2ps, v4.13, that the --title argument 
puts the value provided on the banner page of your output?

I am not finding this to be the case - in fact, the string provided to
the title argument doesn't show up on the banner page, on the header, or
in the lpq queue output - so as far as I can tell, it is being ignored...

The command I am running is 

$ a2ps -v --title=Joe /etc/motd                               
[/etc/motd (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet]
request id is post26-261 (1 file)
[Total: 1 page on 1 sheet] sent to the default printer
lwv26awu (1497) $ a2ps --verbose=999 --title=Joe /etc/motd
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ppd/level1.ppd)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ppd/level1.ppd'
End of PPD file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ppd/level1.ppd'.
Loading map file 
`/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/encoding/encoding.map'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/encoding/encoding.map)
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/encoding/iso1.edf)
Loading map file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map)
Outputing file bw.pro
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ps/bw.pro)
Including file 'base.ps' upon request given in 
'/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ps/bw.pro':31
Outputing file base.ps
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ps/base.ps)
Including file 'a2ps.hdr' upon request given in 
'/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ps/bw.pro':32
Outputing file a2ps.hdr
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/ps/a2ps.hdr)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrr.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrr.afm)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrro.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrro.afm)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrb.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrb.afm)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/phvr.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/phvr.afm)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/phvb.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/phvb.afm)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/ptmr.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/ptmr.afm)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/psyr.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/psyr.afm)
Parsing file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrbo.afm'
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/afm/pcrbo.afm)
r-fopen (/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/sheets/sheets.map)
End of file `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/share/a2ps/sheets/sheets.map'.
Reading pipe: `/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/file -L /etc/motd'
file(1): /etc/motd: ASCII text
File's verdict: ASCII text
Getting ready to print file `/etc/motd', with command `plain'
[/etc/motd (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet]
perl-open (|  lp )
w-popen (lp )
Output `Main trunk' stats:
Dynamic string:
        load: 11112/51200 (21.7%)
        original size: 51200, growth: *= 2
Dynamic array `derivations':
        load: 9/10 (90.0%)
        original size: 10, growth: *= 2
Output `PS encodings' stats:
Dynamic string:
        load: 2158/51200 (4.2%)
        original size: 51200, growth: *= 2
Dynamic array `derivations':
        load: 0/10 (0.0%)
        original size: 10, growth: *= 2
Output `setup' stats:
Dynamic string:
        load: 144/51200 (0.3%)
        original size: 51200, growth: *= 2
Dynamic array `derivations':
        load: 0/10 (0.0%)
        original size: 10, growth: *= 2
request id is post26-262 (1 file)
[Total: 1 page on 1 sheet] sent to the default printer
Dynamic array `List of the jobs':
[ 0] = File `/etc/motd': Pages 1-1 (1), Sheets 1-1 (1)
        del-tmp: `', stdin-tmp: `', is_toc: 0
The derivations:
Dynamic array `derivations':
[ 0] = At 11cd78: delayed_routine 
[ 1] = At 11cda0: delayed_routine 
[ 2] = At 11cdc8: delayed_routine 
[ 3] = At 11cdf0: delayed_routine 
[ 4] = At 11ce18: delayed_routine 
[ 5] = At 11ce40: delayed_routine 
[ 6] = At 11ce68: delayed_string (1)
[ 7] = At 11ce90: delayed_int (1)
[ 8] = At 11ceb8: delayed_int (1)
-- 
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Larry W. Virden <mailto:address@hidden> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
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