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[rjbarbal@Athena.MIT.EDU: Suppressing header sheets on W20-575 printers]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Jul 17 10:11:00 1992
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 10:10:17 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Are the w20-575 printers configured differently, so that header sheets
cannot be suppressed? If so, is this intentional or unintentional?
jik
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To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Suppressing header sheets on W20-575 printers
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 15:43:42 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Hello. Someone suggested I send this problem here instead of to hotline.
In my .environment file, I have the following:
# No header sheet and zephyr notification upon completing printing
setenv LPROPT "-h -z"
This should prevent the header sheet from being printed when using "lpr" and
send a zephyrgram back to me whenever one of my print jobs has completed.
This works properly on most printers, including bias and lw-sipb.
However, on the printers ceres, python, and ajax in W20-575 (and possibly on
the other w20-east-* printers which I've not yet checked), setting LPROPT as
above only sends a zephyrgram: it fails to suppress printing the header sheet.
I've tested this from several of the new machines in W20, both Maxines and
the Dec/133s, and this problem has proven to be repeatable.
I have no idea if this is a bug in "lpr", a hardware problem with the printers
themselves, or something else. I hope you can track this down and correct the
problem quickly. Thanks.
- Richard
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