[comp.sys.ibm.pc] PRINT form feed removal

andyd@tektools.TEK.COM (Andy Davidson) (05/03/87)

I am using the PRINT command to print mailing labels in the background.  
This works fine except that PRINT does a form feed when it completes a
file, which wastes a lot of labels.  Before I go hacking myself, does 
anyone know of a patch to PRINT that will prevent it from issuing a form
feed at the end of a print file?  (Or, even better, that lets it know that
this "form" is 6 lines long, not 66.) I am using DOS 3.1 currently.

     thanks,
	Andy Davidson		Tektronix, Beaverton, OR.
				andyd@tektools.TEK.COM
	{allegra, ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax, zehntel, ...}!tektronix!tektools!andyd


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	Andy Davidson		Tektronix, Beaverton, OR.
				andyd@tektools.TEK.COM
	{allegra, ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax, zehntel, ...}!tektronix!tektools!andyd

ephram@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (05/06/87)

In article <2415@tektools.TEK.COM> andyd@tektools.UUCP (Andy Davidson) writes:
>This works fine except that PRINT does a form feed 
...

>(Or, even better, that lets it know that
>this "form" is 6 lines long, not 66.) I am using DOS 3.1 currently.
>
>     thanks,
>	Andy Davidson		Tektronix, Beaverton, OR.
>				andyd@tektools.TEK.COM
>	{allegra, ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax, zehntel, ...}!tektronix!tektools!andyd

Your printer probably has an esc sequence to set size of page.  try this 
instead of trying to patch print.


ephram@violet.berkeley.edu