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From: moorel@uv2.decnet@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
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Subject: Printer Configuration under Preferences Tool
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 11:17:04 EST
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From: "UV2::MOOREL" <moorel@uv2.decnet>

In answer to Vasili Alexiades,
	We also have an Epson printer attached to our Amiga, and needed to 
print files for our software development effort. We set up our printer using 
the preferences tool in workbench, but our printer will not respond to the 
control parameters, such as number of lines per page, and we don't know why. 
This caused us extreme aggravation, as we needed to print out a number of 
files for our software development effort, and needed the printer to at least 
auto-formfeed between files. Does anyone know why the printer configuration 
tool in preferences would not configure the printer, or am I missing something 
obvious?

Meanwhile, here is my temporary fix for printing files on the Epson:
	Under CLI, you type:
1>execute print filename.dum
where filename.dum is the filename + path of what you want to print.

	print is an indirect file, located in whatever directory the printing
will occur from, or provide it a pathname:

--------------------------------------------------
.k filename/a
df0:c/copy <filename> to prt:
. We can formfeed the printer automatically using formfeed.e and redirecting 
. its output.
:c_exe/formfeed.e > prt:
echo "Printing of <filename> done"
---------------------------------------------------

Formfeed.e is a compiled C program (of extreme trivality):
----------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
	printf ("\f");
}
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This directories indicated in the Amiga-dos file are for the workbench to be
in df0:, and the formfeed to be on my C development disk (which is where I was
printing from, hence the :c_exe/ path to the file.

	Thanks,
	Lynne C. Moore <MOOREL@EGLIN-VAX.ARPA>

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