[net.eunice] What's in a page?

lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) (03/14/84)

How do I shut off the "feature" in VMS that throws in a formfeed after
every n lines sent to the line printer?  The online help seems to 
indicate that the proper thing to do is SET PRINTER/PAGE=0, but when
I try that it gags on the 0 value.  So far I haven't found anything
else in the documentation to help me on this, and TWG hasn't returned
my call.  Of course I could dicker with all the nroff macros, arguments
to print(1), etc., or write a filter, but I'd like to make the printer
look like lpr expects it to.

No doubt there's a simple answer, and I'm just blind...

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall

tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray) (03/15/84)

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To squelch VMS line printer paging:
Either say PRINT/NOFEED in DCL, or set NOFEED in the queue characteristics.

lew@t4test.UUCP (Lew Mullen) (03/23/84)

We successfully emulate a unix-type printer with these lines:

$! This printer is a Printronix P600.
$
$	set dev lpa0:/spool
$	set printer lpa0: /unknown /width=132 /page=0 /nocr /ff /lowercase -
                          /nopassall /nowrap /noprintall

$

It could be you missed the "/unknown".  

Both Dataproducts and Printronix printers can be set up to skip lines
at the fold in the "hardware".  DEC software drivers usually require 
this to be turned off. Yours is probably already off, but if the above
lines do not handle it ...

						Lew Mullen
						t4test!lew