Re: Bug in pr?

[Richard Stallman]

      Omitting the trailer causes GNU pr to try to print on
    the very last line of the output page, which is a portability hassle:
    some printers and printer emulators ignore newline before formfeed on
    the last line of a page, while others don't.

Wouldn't the trailer force a move to the next page,
exactly the opposite of what we want?

    submit a patch along those lines shortly, to bug-coreutils.  This is
    an incompatible change, since it will output 7 fewer lines per page
    when you specify -F;

Don't you mean 7 more lines?  I don't follow.

Anyway, if this change means less output per page, why do it?
I'd rather change just enough to fix the problem.