david,

bear in mind that an "environment file" becomes an environment file only
when you declare it as such to MPE, thus to the Spooler, via an ;env=
clause.

And all that ;env= accomplishes is that said file gets copied to the printer


* after its MPE initialization (see termtypes etc but look away fast;
  hard reset is the ticket) and
* prior to the actual spoolfile content.

So all you need to add to your empty environment file are

1) a hard reset, probably an escape sequence, quite likely escape-E, as
specified in your printer's manual (I hope); all it will do is UNdo any
prior magic setups.

2) whatever special settings you want for this particular print job, such as
vertical spacing, font specs, whatever you can dream up.

3) if you have extra space in your file (you won't if it's a bytestream),
fill it with something the printer won't see (nulls).

Your request begs the question, What do you want your environment file to
do?  ;env= is just a data insertion tool.

Tracy Pierce


> -----Original Message-----
> From: david h. floyd [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:20 AM
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> Subject: epson environment file
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> does anyone have an epson fx980 environment file for a 3000 that they
> could send me?  private replies would be great.
>
>
>
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>
> thanks,
>
> david h. floyd
> manager of support services
>
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