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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How to generate a banner page for each print job?
Keywords: banner, print
Message-ID: <4907@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 90 20:59:34 GMT
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In article <180@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
> In article <4897@mace.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:
> >In article <9854@lindy.Stanford.EDU> giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards) writes:
> I don't think that the NeXT printer, attached to a cube, uses the
> pscomm program.  That's for serially connected printers, and is
> part of TranScript from Adobe.

BANNERFIRST and BANNERLAST in the .options file under 0.8 and 0.9 (I think)
did produce a banner page on a NeXT printer.  Pscomm(8) just happens to
document those options.  However, as Steve Dorner has observed, the NeXT
printer driver in 1.0 ignores the .option file.  Perhaps someone from NeXT
will speak up and reveal the secret of how to get a banner page under 1.0.