On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote: On 08/03/11 21:33, Gregg Levine wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Mark Wickens<mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote: 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 Hello! Mark I have several of those terminal servers here. How is yours configured, and even wired to your system? (or systems?) ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." Hi Greg, It is wired to a 10MB router that has both a 10base2 (BNC) connector and some 10baseT (RJ45) connectors via a thin wire BNC cable connected to T-pieces with a 50 ohm terminator on each end. The 10MB router is connected to a Netgear gigabit router via CAT-5 and then out to the rest of the world. I configured the terminal server by connecting a terminal/pc terminal emulator to port 1 via a DB9 to RJ45 cable. The management interface allows you to then specify the name of the decserver and the name of the port, and whether it is a printer/terminal port, speed, etc. Once the port was configured I used the decserver/port name in the LAT configuration on the VAX. I defined a virtual terminal pointing to that decserver/port then pointed the printer queue to that. The printer connects at 4800 baud to the specified printer port via a MMJ to MMJ cable that came with it. Hope that sheds some light, Mark. Hello! Oh yes. With one of mine I had gotten as far as the configuration steps. But the connectivity issues were the big one. Do you recall who makes this "10MB router that has both a 10base2 (BNC) connector and some 10baseT (RJ45) connectors". I've been trying to find one with limited success about the time the first one arrived here. Strangely enough both it, and a VAX Station 3100 arrived here from a fellow on the original Linux-VAX list. There was one of those in the list, but that went to a different individual, it might have been you, then again I can't recall. That VAX Station 3100 is next to get working, perhaps I'll have the time to do so, this summer or later. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."