From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 11:54:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA15668 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 11:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.8.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA15638 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 11:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.8.41]) by rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA11926; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:54:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <324439CB.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:54:03 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hmmm CC: ckelly@dnaent.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer Header (Banner) Pages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hmmm wrote: > is there any way to stop this "title" page from being printed all the > time on an ascii printer connected to lp0? (the ones where each letter > is made up of several letters?) Absolutely. Just add ":sh:" to your printcap entry for the printer. The ":sh:" means "(s)uppress (h)eader page." -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Boulder Colorado USA