how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I need to print some text on a continuous paper with no page breaks. How to do this? I've epson lq-550 matrix printer attached via a parallel cable, and lp|local line printer:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\

Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:53:56 GMT Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: 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

Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From 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

Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:16:02 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From 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