At 17:35 -0700 5/27/04, Vance, Jeff H (Cupertino) wrote:

>1. "Network printing to work with non-HP printers by adding a
>pcl_supported = false option in NPCONFIG.PUB.SYS. If this option is
>paired with pjl_supported = false, the spooler would just dump the ASCII
>data to the printer and strip any PCL sequences from the beginning of
>the spool file. No device status checking and reporting, failure
>recovery, imbedded PCL sequences, or handling of CCTL information would
>be done. The customer would be responsible for ending each of the spool
>files with a form feed command to flush the last page. HEADON would not
>be supported."

Nice.

Why "The customer would be responsible for ending each of the spool
files with a form feed command to flush the last page"?

How about something like "end_with_form_feed = [true/false]" in
NPCONFIG.PUB.SYS"?


Thanks,

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