| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Greetings.
A customer of mine has asked if he uses the the lpr command for
printing with the option -# for multiple copies, what can he do to have
a blank page between copies.
Thanks Angelo.
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| 9342.1 | lpr -# options to seperate copies with blank pages | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | Sri | Tue Apr 01 1997 18:43 | 6 |
I know of nothing. The number of copies is taken care by the filters (if: and of: fields as in /etc/printcap), and unless you want to write own filters it may not be possible. -Sri [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||
| 9342.2 | LEXSS1::GINGER | Ron Ginger | Wed Apr 02 1997 11:09 | 10 | |
I wish I could send him some of our blank pages. We have had to hack a
perl script in to the print filter to get rid of the blank page our
application generates, because NT adds its own blank page.
Without doubt printing is the most difficult thing to get right in unix
(with modems a very close second)
Its hard to believe that no one has ever written a decent print system
as a unix add-on- it sohuld be worth a fortune in this commercial
world.
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| 9342.3 | Maybe the gnu/linux lpr ? | APACHE::CHAMBERS | Fri Apr 04 1997 13:10 | 16 | |
> I wish I could send him some of our blank pages. We have had to hack a > perl script in to the print filter to get rid of the blank page our > application generates, because NT adds its own blank page Well, golly; I have a linux system at home, with an HP LaserJet attached, and by default, the lpr there doesn't produce any excess pages at all. No header pages, no trailer pages, no blank pages. I do recall noticing some options to generate such things if you want them, but I never do, so I ignored all those options. Maybe you should just go to the linux archives, nab a copy of their lpr/lpd package, and compile it for your system. Their stuff is usually quite portable, and I've gotten a number of useful OSF1 things that way. (There's a rumor of some people doing linux on Alpha in some back room in Nashua; maybe they'd give you a copy of their print package. ;-) | |||||