Steve Patterson writes:

> Yeah, I was aware and made sure.  I played with it, and instead of
> using '<ESC>', I put a raw escape character in front of the
> &ell-zero-oh.  This worked perfectly.
>
> The funny thing:  Although the '<ESC>&l0O' printed at the start of the
> output, the printer changed to portrait as well.  Sort of like it
> interpreted the setup string, then printed it as well.  Go figure...

Not entirely magic...

If you supply no setup file in NPCONFIG, and no ENV= file on the file
equation (i.e., raw data), MPE has a "hard coded" setup it uses to set
the format to 132-column, 66-lines, landscape lineprinter format.  This
simulates the old 2680 last printer behavior.

Your attempted setup file with the literal "<ESC>" was not interpreted,
it was printed.  But since you appeared to have used a setup file, MPE
did not emit the default lineprinter setup.  Thus your output came to
the default (or last) settings for the printer, which for typical
laserjets is portrait mode.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>