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From: klb@philabs.Philips.Com (Ken Bourque)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Problem with  define/form
Message-ID: <3272@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: 15 Feb 88 17:06:54 GMT
References: <8802110418.AA13011@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1378@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Reply-To: klb@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Ken Bourque)
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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>Then it hit me, why not have a setup for each page of the print-out so that
>you don't get these extra pages?  This is what we have been doing now for the
>past few months.  The only time we EVER get a blank page is when the system
>reboots or when the SYMBIONT starts.

This works fine, but if the reason for wanting the setup is to reset the
printer to a known state after each job, you don't want to be doing that
after every page.

Somewhere in one of the System Dispatches DEC claims that if you make the
contents of the reset module look like a VT240 escape sequence you will
avoid the extra form feeds.  I tried this - no luck.  Since it is easy to
put an explicit form feed in the reset module if you want one, I can't
fathom why VMS should try to give you one whether you want it or not.

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Ken Bourque    klb@philabs.philips.com    ...!{uunet,ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!klb