[fa.laser-lovers] LN01/UNIX

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (01/09/85)

From: Andrew Gideon <A.ANDY@SU-GSB-HOW.ARPA>

Office Phone: (415) 497-4816/9717
ReSent-Date: Tue 8 Jan 85 14:48:38-PST
ReSent-From: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA>
ReSent-To: "Laser Lovers": ;

We have an LN01 on our VAX/780.  Under VMS, it will do the
correct thing for a cntl/M, but under UNIX, it does not
go back to the beginning of the line.  It generally doesn't
move the cursor at all, in fact, so underlining looks like

Underline This _________ ____

Other times, (not sent with LPR/LPD) though, it looks like:

Underline This   ( <--Underline characters on following line in this case)
_________ ____

Anyone know why, or how to correct this?

(first guess...driver doesn't like naked cntl/m, so LPR/LPD doesn't allow 
 them?)

Andy Gideon 
gideon@score.arpa

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laser-lovers@uw-beaver (01/11/85)

From: dave@wisc-rsch.arpa (Dave Cohrs)

> We have an LN01 on our VAX/780.  Under VMS, it will do the
> correct thing for a cntl/M, but under UNIX, it does not
> go back to the beginning of the line.  It generally doesn't
> move the cursor at all, in fact, so underlining looks like

> Underline This _________ ____

> Other times, (not sent with LPR/LPD) though, it looks like:

> Underline This   ( <--Underline characters on following line in this case)
> _________ ____

> Anyone know why, or how to correct this?

I checked things out here.  Sending a file as you described
causes the line to be underlined correctly.  We are running
a different lp driver which leaves all the formatting up to
lpd (which does it anyway, so why should the driver do any
extra work?).  Check your lp driver.  Oh yeah, we are running
4.2bsd.

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(Bug?  What bug?  That's a feature!)

Dave Cohrs
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