From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 9 01:33:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25684 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 01:33:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25668 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 01:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA06746; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 01:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 01:33:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith cc: faq@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested changes to handbook In-Reply-To: <357C4AF1.BD2688FF@showme.missouri.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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