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)
x 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