You may have been thinking that the 'penv' files were too mysterious & flaky.
Googling the 'L' reveals posts saying that they are for older printers, not
current laserjets. Printing with 'land.hpenv.sys' as the env file does not
print landscape on my neighborhood laserjet.  Printing with 'port.env.sys'
prints portrait, but that is the default, so it doesn't prove much.

Meanwhile, your 8-year-old file covers the basics:
0o        portrait mode
2a        letter size paper
6d        6 lines per inch
3e        top margin 3 lines
60f       max 60 lines per page (sets bottom margin)
(s10H  10 characters per inch

A fanatic might reset the printer to its defaults first, and/or send more
codes, for font, fixed or variable spacing, duplex, tray-selection, barbeque
sauce (if he has been reading OT: posts) etc.

Did this come up just from curiousity, or was your file unsatisfactory in some
way and you were looking for something better ?

Dave Powell,  MMfab

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James B. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 09:24
Subject: [HP3000-L] NEED SOME CORPORATE MEMORY


> A long time ago I set up the npconfig file for our laserjets and
> some of the printers have this line:
>
> setup_file = LJ2PORT.HPENV.SYS
>
> which contains this:
>
> 0o2a6d3e60f(s10H
>
> Which, I presume, re-initializes the printer in some fashion
> (portrait mode) for each new job that is spooled to it.  The
> embarrassing thing about this is that I set all this up in 1997 and
> have absolutely no recollection of doing so.
>
> Now, in @.HPENV.SYS there are files of type PENV (printer
> environment files?) of which one is called PORT.  But
> PORT.HPENV.SYS is much, much larger than my minuscule LP2PORT.  So,
> my question is.  What does the PORT.HPENV.SYS do that I would want
> to have my own replacement for it?  Should I be using
> PORT.HPENV.SYS instead?  Does PORT.HPENV.SYS post-date MPEiX 5.5
> perhaps?
>
> I did not say this would be easy.  Go ahead, tell me what I was
> thinking eight years ago.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
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