Re: Form feed

2003-02-19 Thread Matthew Langford
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Tom McDonough wrote: Thanks for confirming my suspicion that \f in the Perl shipped with mac os x 10.2 might not be working properly (or at all). Is anyone out there getting a form feed to work? The problem may not be with Perl's \f. Print to a file, and see if \f

Re: Form feed

2003-02-19 Thread Bruce Van Allen
Thanks Matt and drieux for the background and leads for exploring this further, especially along the lines of translating to Postscript, an area I was already wanting to learn more about. On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Matthew Langford wrote: The problem may not be with Perl's

Re: Form feed

2003-02-17 Thread Tom McDonough
On 2/15/03 21:56, drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, Feb 15, 2003, at 14:40 US/Pacific, Tom McDonough wrote: I'm trying to force a form feed using perl 5.6 and os x.2 without using the format command. LPR is the line printer and it is OPEN. My program is printing continuous

Re: Form feed

2003-02-17 Thread drieux
On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 14:52 US/Pacific, Tom McDonough wrote: On 2/15/03 21:56, drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, Feb 15, 2003, at 14:40 US/Pacific, Tom McDonough wrote: I'm trying to force a form feed using perl 5.6 and os x.2 without using the format command. LPR

Re: Form feed

2003-02-17 Thread Bruce Van Allen
I was hoping someone could offer some useful advice here. I've just begun fiddling with lpr recently, and am still very ignorant, so after the OP's first query, I immediately tried to print something with a form feed on my laser printer Speedy (OS X 10.2.4, Perl 5.6.1): #!/usr/bin/perl -w open

Re: Form feed

2003-02-17 Thread Tom McDonough
Thanks for confirming my suspicion that \f in the Perl shipped with mac os x 10.2 might not be working properly (or at all). Is anyone out there getting a form feed to work? On 2/17/03 13:37, Bruce Van Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping someone could offer some useful advice here

Form feed

2003-02-15 Thread Tom McDonough
I'm trying to force a form feed using perl 5.6 and os x.2 without using the format command. These don't work: print LPR \007; # form feed ? doesn't work $ff = v12; print LPR $ff; # Camel book Sec 2.6.7: doesn't work print LPR \f; # Camel book page 663: doesn't work Anyone know what

Re: Form feed

2003-02-15 Thread drieux
On Saturday, Feb 15, 2003, at 14:40 US/Pacific, Tom McDonough wrote: I'm trying to force a form feed using perl 5.6 and os x.2 without using the format command. These don't work: print LPR \007; # form feed ? doesn't work $ff = v12; print LPR $ff; # Camel book Sec 2.6.7: doesn't work