I'm not sure why my email was converted from Plain Text to HTML....sorry.
Two suggestions were to use the -n switch on echo or use of printf.
I used the -n switch and worked fine.
Thanks for the replys.
I must of missed that switch on the man page...Oh well.
George
-----Original Message-----
From: George Gallen [mailto:ggallen_at_slackinc.com]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 2:49 PM
To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
Subject: appending a FF without getting the trailing /n?
I'm trying to append a FF to end of print job prior to the lp command
I'm using:
(cat - | /usr/mbin/lf2crlf ; echo "^L") | lp -d PR32
This does append a FF, but it also ads a /n after the FF, which
causes the paper to jump one line after a FF, throwing off alignment
Other than prepending a '\n' to make the first page look like the rest
(also stops you from being able to print on the first line).
Thanks
George
I'm on a AS2100 3.2c DU
George Gallen
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Accounting/Data Division
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Received on Fri Dec 01 2000 - 20:06:33 NZDT