Mark,
Do you remember how you initially defined the queue? Hoff is right
about them being a pain. Printers and backups were the biggest
headaches on VMS at DEC without question. LAT printers (queues) were
much worse than directly connected ones! I remember it as being a bit
of a moving target on the best of days.
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 16:28
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Printing to an LA75 using VMS queues and form
definitions
Hi guys,
I have printing working to my LA75+ dot matrix printer via a spooled VMS
queue which communicates via LAT with the printer attached to a
DECserver 90L+. Everything is working fine except for two issues:
1. I'd like to be able to print with a form definition which leaves a
margin at the top and bottom of the page. I tried this:
$ DEFINE/FORM LISTING 3
/WIDTH=132/PAGE=66/MARGIN=(TOP=6,BOTTOM=6)/STOCK=DEFAULT/NOWRAP/TRUNCATE
$ SET QUEUE/DEFAULT=FORM=LISTING LA75$PRINT_ALEPH$
I tried asking Hoff but I think he's sick of my 80's related questions,
his response was entitled:
Classic printing best left to masochistic perfectionists
<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/766#comment-2424>
(
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/766)
I think I'm almost there, but the printer appears to be ignoring the
bottom margin - I get a top margin fine, and the listing is not
exhibiting 'rolling' ie the content of the output is aligned correctly
on each page.
Anyone got any ideas what I can do? I want to be able to put listings in
vertical binders, and that just doesn't work without both top and bottom
margins being honoured.
Regards, Mark