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When printing on Sco OpenServer 5 it may form feed a full pg


Printing problem on Sco OpenServer 5:

On Sco 5.0 there is a print spooler interface script that has changed
from earlier releases of SCO. On earlier versions of SCO such as
3.2.4.2 it was actually two separate files, one for serial port the
other a parallel port.

On SCO 5.0 it's now one file that will branch out between the serial &
parallel port.

We have heard some reports that you may see problems where an extra
form feed is generated after printing a report directly from Progress.
The problem is that the form feed is generated from where the printing
leaves off, to a full page beyond that rather than just to the top of
the next page. This may leave the paper positioned on the next page
the same distance from where it left off on the prior page.

This may cause you to manually adjust the form feed so some print jobs
may not be left unattended because of alignment issues.

This issue should be addressed with SCO support as this is a problem
having to do with the print spooler and printing a file with a ^L
<form feed> at the end.

NOTE:

In some cases, we have found that commenting out the following lines
of the Unix "standard model" printer interface file elminated the form
feed issue on both parallel and serial ports.

if [ ! -x "${LPPAGER:=${LOCALPATH}/lp.page}" ]
then
LPPAGER=
fi

The file can be located /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces/<spooler>.

Backup your orginal interface file before you modify the interface
script. Please contact SCO prior to making any changes to your
spooler interface file.

Revised
96-06-24
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Progress Software Technical Support Note # 15854