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From: warwick@marvin.dec.com.UUCP
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Subject: Correctly aligned flag pages (print symbiont request)
Message-ID: <10389@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 05:54:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 05:54:44 1987
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> I'm looking for a neat print symbiont and I'm sure somone must have written
>  one. What I'd like is a symbiont which will keep track of pages ( for
>  at least 95% of the time ) so that, if I load a box of paper correctly
>  at the start, each job will print with the flag page face up. This
>  would make sorting output much easier.
> Something which works for LP11-style printers would be fine.
> Thanks in advance,
>  John
    
You can achieve the effect you want much more easily than by writing a
symbiont. Investigate the BURST and FLAG options on the INIT/QUEUE command: 

$ INITIALIZE/QUEUE/DEFAULT=(BURST=ONE,FLAG=ONE).

This will cause each job to be preceded by two header pages, with printing
over the perforations between them so that it is easier to see the job
boundaries in a stack of output. There is a fuller description in the System
Manager's Reference Manual, in the section on Print queues.


trevor warwick

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