Re: just discovered a2ps

[Rusty Ballinger]

> 1. Can I select what pages/sheets in a job to print?  For example,
> "F4,44,224,L2" would print the First 4 pages, page 44, page 224, and the
> last two pages if they exist and without duplication.  So, if 224 was a
> part of the last 2 pages, don't reprint it.

If no one says yes, there are other utilities like psselect which do
this:

  a2ps ... | psselect -p4,44,224,_2,_1 | lpr ...

(I don't know whether psselect handles duplicates, but I know if you
ask it to include page 224, and there are less than 224 pages in the
document, it just ignores it.)

--Rusty