Larry,

I thought Danny Compton replied 'publicly' to this and pointed out that the
problem was with the '0e' almost 3 days ago.

Regards
Paul Christidis

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Subject: Re: ^[&l1V doesn't work (LONG)
Author:  Larry Byler <[log in to unmask]> at CCGATE
Date:    04/18/97 10:33 AM


I ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

: Here are excerpts from the file (as rendered by SPIFF, and edited by me
: to remove customer data content).  Since some of the records in the file
: are longer than 80 bytes, I have artificially split those records with a
: "\" for display here.  My comments are in brackets ([]).  Also, SPIFF
: displays the <esc> character as a dot (".").

:   0 OP P1=$0000 P2=$0000
:   1 WR P1=$0001 P2=$0002 CC=%061              [blank page until MPEJXC1]
:   2 WR P1=$0001 P2=$0002 CC=%040 BUF/#  45= .E.9.&a0l175M.&l0e90f8D\
:        .(s16.6h1p0T.(10U.&l0S

I've had one (private) response, so this must be a real stumper (or nobody
cares).

We've been able to isolate the problem, but still don't know why it occurs.
Perhaps this additional clue will jog someone's dim memory.

In (SPIFF) line 2 above, note the sequence
   ^[&l0e90f8D
This sequence sets the top margin to 0 lines (0e), the text length to 90
lines (90f), and the line density to eight lines per inch (8D).

The culprit is the 0e.  With a value of 0, an ^[&l1V anywhere in the file
moves the logical pen to the top of form, as is consistent with a skip to
VFC channel 1, but does not eject the current page.  We tried this on a
completely flat text file (fread the file, fwrite the printer, no pen
positioning, font specification, etc.).  The second page printed on top
of the first page.

Change the 0 to a 1 (one line top margin) and everything works fine.

How about it?  Anyone seen this?  Care to comment?

-Larry "MPE/iX Spoolers 'R' Us" Byler-