lui@CS.UCLA.EDU (10/23/87)
We use the standard VMS printer software to run our QMS laser printers. VMS assumes the printer can print 132 characters per line and the header pages from our laser printers consist of 4 pages. Since this is a waste of paper, we would like to modify the header page. Does anyone know how to do this? Stephen Lui UCLA Department of Computer Science and Hughes Aircraft Company 2000 E. Imperial Hwy. El Segundo, CA (213) 305-2085 ARPA: lui@cs.ucla.edu UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!lui Stephen Lui UCLA Department of Computer Science and Hughes Aircraft Company 2000 E. Imperial Hwy. El Segundo, CA (213) 305-2085 ARPA: lui@cs.ucla.edu UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!lui
leichter@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("Jerry Leichter") (10/24/87)
We use the standard VMS printer software to run our QMS laser printers. VMS assumes the printer can print 132 characters per line and the header pages from our laser printers consist of 4 pages. Since this is a waste of paper, we would like to modify the header page. The width the standard symbiont uses is taken from the form definition for the queue. If you don't make any form definitions, the system default form is used - and it probably defines a 132 column by 66 line line printer page. Forms and form setting are described in the DCL book - look up DEFINE/FORM and INITIALIZE/QUEUE=FORM:xxx. (Note that there were changes in the way some of this stuff worked as VMS V4 evolved - it was all new to VMS V4.0. I don't remember exactly, but I think the ability to define a default form for a queue may have been added in VMS V4.2; maybe even later. If you have trouble finding these commands in your documentation set, be sure it's up to date!) -- Jerry ------
unknown@cunyvm.UUCP (10/25/87)
I'm sure that this isn't the first or last time this question is asked on the network. The VMS print symbiont decides how wide to make the header page based upon the width of the form on which it is printing. If your printouts are printing on DEFAULT forms a command something like $ define/form default 0/width=90 ! see HELP DEFINE/FORM OR IF YOU DON'T WANT THE HEADERS AT ALL, TURN THEM OFF. This is much easier than modifying them if they are considered a "waste of paper".