On 21-Mar-18 07:02, Jordi Guillaumes Pons wrote: > Some years ago I wrote a note to myself: > > - Enable printing: > > 1) Create file SYS:LPFORMS:INI with the following content: > > NORMAL:ALL/BANNER:01/HEADER:01/LINES:66/WIDTH:132/TRAILER:01 > > 2) In OPR: SHUTDOWN PRINTER 0 > 3) In OPR: START PRINTER 0/DEVICE:LPT0 > > > I don’t remember what problem I was trying to solve, but right now > this file exists and printing works. Hope it can help you. > > > Jordi Guillaumes i Pons > j...@jordi.guillaumes.name <mailto:j...@jordi.guillaumes.name> > HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES > > > LPFORM.INI tells LPTSPL how to process forms (the paper stock on which a job is printed). The default form is "Normal". Form names with the same 4 initial characters use the same stock; no operator intervention is required to change among them. (This is used to allow specifying soft parameters, such as the number of banner pages, per job.) If a job requires different stock, the operator is notified.
The :ALL is a locator; it specifies which printer(s) the line refers to. E.g. LPTnnn, or the reserved words 'LOC' or 'REM'. The switches define the job format - BANNER is # of job header pages; HEADER is number of header pages written before each file. TRAILER is the job trailer. The rest in your example are self-explanatory. There are more options; see the operator's guide and operator's command language reference. for more detail. I don't believe that LPFORM .INI is required, but it's a good idea to have one. Mine contains: NORMAL/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/RAM:LP96/VFU:NORMAL NARROW/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/WIDTH:80/RAM:LP96/VFU:NORMAL LABELS/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/WIDTH:100/RAM:LP64/VFU:LABELS 66LINE/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/RAM:LP96/VFU:66LINE With respect to the START command, /DEVICE is not required when writing to the default printer. It's used when you have multiple printers or want to redirect printer output to some other device - usually a magtape -- e.g. when producing microform. With remote (ANF-10) printers, it's qualified by /node SYS:SYSTEM.CMD usually starts the printer; mine contains these lines related to the printer: set printer 0 page-limit 2000 start printer 0 The OP's issue is likely that the printer isn't ENABLEd in SimH.
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