Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!uwmacc!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU!leichter From: leichter@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("Jerry Leichter") Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: re: Modifying header page for printouts Message-ID: <8710250506.AA07848@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 16:08:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8710250506.AA07848 Posted: Sat Oct 24 16:08:00 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 01:32:43 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "Jerry Leichter" Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 We use the standard VMS printer software to run our QMS laser printers. VMS assumes the printer can print 132 characters per line and the header pages from our laser printers consist of 4 pages. Since this is a waste of paper, we would like to modify the header page. The width the standard symbiont uses is taken from the form definition for the queue. If you don't make any form definitions, the system default form is used - and it probably defines a 132 column by 66 line line printer page. Forms and form setting are described in the DCL book - look up DEFINE/FORM and INITIALIZE/QUEUE=FORM:xxx. (Note that there were changes in the way some of this stuff worked as VMS V4 evolved - it was all new to VMS V4.0. I don't remember exactly, but I think the ability to define a default form for a queue may have been added in VMS V4.2; maybe even later. If you have trouble finding these commands in your documentation set, be sure it's up to date!) -- Jerry ------