From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 13:35:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01992 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:35:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.missouri.edu (mail.missouri.edu [128.206.2.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01798 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@showme.missouri.edu) Received: from showme.missouri.edu (Mizzou-AS10-03.missouri.edu [128.206.209.195]) by mail.missouri.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA89068 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:34:43 -0500 Message-ID: <357C4AF1.BD2688FF@showme.missouri.edu> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 15:34:57 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Organization: University of Missouri X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: faq@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Suggested changes to handbook Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Mr/Ms FAQ, 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. In fact, I use the hpif described in 7.6.1.3 - again I use this new sequence. Just a little suggestion to a really excellent handbook to a really excellent product. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message