diff --git a/handbook/printing.sgml b/handbook/printing.sgml
index c40ef9a9cb..1c10d17d77 100644
--- a/handbook/printing.sgml
+++ b/handbook/printing.sgml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!-- This is an SGML document in the linuxdoc DTD describing
      Printing with FreeBSD.  By Sean Kelly, 1995.
 
-     $Id: printing.sgml,v 1.22 1998-07-20 01:32:44 jkoshy Exp $
+     $Id: printing.sgml,v 1.23 1998-12-08 22:09:04 billf Exp $
 
      The FreeBSD Documentation Project
 
@@ -2245,13 +2245,13 @@ if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then
    #
    #  PostScript job, print it.
    #
-   echo $first_line &amp;&amp; cat &amp;&amp; printf "\004" &amp;&amp; exit 0
+   echo "$first_line" &amp;&amp; cat &amp;&amp; printf "\004" &amp;&amp; exit 0
    exit 2
 else
    #
    #  Plain text, convert it, then print it.
    #
-   ( echo $first_line; cat ) | /usr/local/bin/textps &amp;&amp; printf "\004" &amp;&amp; exit 0
+   ( echo "$first_line"; cat ) | /usr/local/bin/textps &amp;&amp; printf "\004" &amp;&amp; exit 0
    exit 2
 fi
 </code>
@@ -2327,7 +2327,7 @@ else
     #  Plain text or HP/PCL, so just print it directly; print a form
     #  at the end to eject the last page.
     #
-    echo $first_line &amp;&amp; cat &amp;&amp; printf "\f" &amp;&amp; exit 0
+    echo "$first_line" &amp;&amp; cat &amp;&amp; printf "\f" &amp;&amp; exit 0
 fi
 
 exit 2