Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ukma!uflorida!codas!mtune!icus!lenny
From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,att.sys.unixpc
Subject: Re: UNIX-PC vs. line printers
Message-ID: <244@icus.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 02:13:23 GMT
References: <2430@ihuxv.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
Lines: 38

In article <2430@ihuxv.ATT.COM> rck@ihuxv.ATT.COM (R. C. Kukuk) writes:
|>
|>[... explanation of the <FF> in the the end of the page snipped out...]
|>
|>Thank you, line printer driver!  You have no business
|>modifying a data stream; you should only pass the data from the
|>user to the printer!
|>

I agree totally.  We had the problem when we did special forms like
statements and invoices for our company.  This seems to only happen
on the Parallel device.  The serial printer connection is untouched.

The way we got around it was to avoid the printer spooler totally...

$ cat file >/dev/rawlp

|>Does anyone out there know how to disable this 66 line "feature"?

If you have 3.51, you can do a "setprint".  

Usage:  setprint lines cols

(ie:  setprint 66 132 <-- default action)

This might help too...

					-Lenny
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