[comp.os.vms] Unwanted form feed with START/QUEUE

gcbroman@thunder.UUCP (10/10/87)

We are having a problem with START/QUEUE/FORM_MOUNTED in VMS 4.5.

We first issue STOP/QUEUE/NEXT to a printer queue 
in order to change to new forms.  This works fine but after we have
mounted the new forms on the printer and we have set top-of-form,
START/QUEUE sends a form feed.  This causes the printer to skip to 
the top of the page using the page size of the old forms. 
The operator must then manually re-align the new forms a second 
time.

Note that SET QUEUE/FORM_MOUNTED does not send any form feed.

Why do START/QUEUE and SET QUEUE behave differently?

Other than using SET QUEUE, is there any other way we can suppress 
the initial form feed sent by START/QUEUE?
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