how to disable page breaks in line printer

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:16:02 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 	From ateve at sohara.org Tue Oct 30 11:54:11 2012
> 
> 	> I thought from reading printcap(5)
> 	> that pl sets page length is lines,
> 	> so if I make it long enough, I should
> 	> see no page breaks. Still, I get
> 	> empty space at the bottom of the
> 	> physical page and empty space at
> 	> the top of the next.
> 	> Surely I'm missing someting.
> 	> How to get rid of this empty space?
> 
> 		The printer may be doing this internally, many dot matrix printers
> 	had the ability to set the page length and perforation skip on DIP
> 	switches.
> 
> yes, got it:
> 
> dip switch 2-3
> ON: 1-inch skip-over-perforation
> OFF: NO skip-over-perforation
> 
> Need to power off/on for the new settings
> to have effect.

If the document itself contrains page breaks ("form feed",
Ctrl+L, ^L, ASCII code 12) you could previously delete
them with tr -d, just to make sure.





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