Lee Courtney writes:
> I just wanted confirmation that the MPE/iX CI command PRINT ignores
> carriage control in all cases. In other words there is no way to print a
> file and have embedded carriage control characters cause page ejects,
> etc.? On-line HELP for PRINT sez: "If filename has embedded carriage
> control characters (CCTL), then PRINT will insert a blank in place of
> the CCTL in the outfile." This seems to be confirmed by several tests I
> have run.

Huh?  I can make :PRINT preserve my CCTL.

> What I want - if I specify "FILE LPCC;DEV=LP;CCTL" and then do "PRINT
> foo;OUT=*lpcc" I want the internal carriage control to be recognized by
> the command. Failing that I want a CCTL parameter on PRINT like FCOPY
> has (FCOPY no spreche POSIX names). I use the print command to get
> hardcopy from the POSIX shell, and it would be really nice to have it
> recognize carriage control.

I have several canned printer test files created with rec=,,v,ascii;cctl.

If foo is one of my test files, I can print it *with* the embedded CCTL via:

:file bar;dev=lp;cctl
:print foo;out=*bar

> Hey Jeff, this sounds like a (easy) POSIX smoothing issue!

I guess I don't understand exactly what you're trying to do with the POSIX
shell.  It would help if you cut/pasted an example.
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