In a message dated 8/22/02 9:44:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> It seems like the printer is doing mostly what you say.  It evaluates the
> line, has nothing to print so does nothing.... however, it does not appear
> to do the line feed for each line.  It seems like it keeps track of how
> many line feeds it needs and then when it sees the next printable line,
> does all the line feeds at once.
>
>

Hmmmm... using carriage control to skip a certain number of lines is often
far faster than the approach of writing out blank lines in COBOL but you can
only skip a certain number of lines if you know in the code exactly how many
lines you need to skip.  Perhaps the printer controller software is trying to
convert a series of blank lines into a carraige control skip?  Perhaps it is
also failing to gain any speed by doing so?

Wayne

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