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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: nroff problems
Message-ID: <479@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 15:06:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: pluto.479
Posted: Wed Aug  5 15:06:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Aug-87 06:02:16 EDT
References: <774@PSUECLB> <645@ora.UUCP>
Reply-To: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Organization: Industrial Automation Systems, New York, NY
Lines: 44


Do you absolutely need formfeeds?  Can't your printer break things
up at the end of each page?  If not, try a little program to insert
a formfeed after every 66 lines, I had it hanging around from the last
time I had such a problem.  No way to change 66 save edit/recompile,
it's a throwaway.

/*
 * Copy stdin to stdout, insert formfeed every 66 lines.
 */

#include <stdio.h>

main() {
	int line = 0;
	int c;

	if ( (c = getchar()) == EOF)
	  return;

	for (;;) {
		if (c == '\n')
		  line++;
		putchar(c);

		/*
		 * An odd place to leave the loop, but it keeps a final
		 * formfeed from being generated when the last page
		 * has exactly 66 lines.
		 */
		if ( (c = getchar()) == EOF)
		  break;

		if (line >= 66) {
			putchar('\f');
			line = 0;
		}
	}
}
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