Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 01:33:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@showme.missouri.edu> Cc: faq@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested changes to handbook Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980609013159.6734B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <357C4AF1.BD2688FF@showme.missouri.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I have some little suggested change to the FreeBSD handbook, > specifically concerning HP printers. In section 7.4.2.2, > in your sample if-simple, you end with a printf "\f". > The disadvantage of this is if it should just happen that the > printed page ended exactly at the end of the page, then in addition > you get another blank page printed. (Yes, this really happened > to me, usually when I used the dvilj program.) > I find that the sequence printf "\033&l0H" works a lot better - it > flushes out the present page, only printing if there is actually > stuff on it. Interesting. I'll look into adding it in, thanks! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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