[13177] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.7J: enscript
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Bermack)
Fri Feb 3 15:59:46 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 15:59:36 EST
From: Brian Bermack <bcb@MIT.EDU>
System name: m16-034-13
Type and version: POWER 7.7J
Display type: POWER_Gt1
What were you trying to do?
Print many short text files, each in single-sided,
two-column/landscape format, without header pages.
I have an alias for "enscript -2Grh". According to "man
enscript" on this machine, -h is not a valid option. On a different
machine or at an earlier time, -h was listed as suppressing header
pages, which is what I wanted to do.
When I realized this was printing double-sided, I removed the
"h" from the alias and printed more files. These are also printing
two-sided. I have used the alias "enscript -2Gr" for many months and
it has never printed things two-sided before.
I have *not* used "setup save".
What's wrong:
1. Files are being printed two-*sided* as well as two-column
and landscape.
2. Header pages *are* being printed
3. Each page went through the double-sided printing process,
even if the file was short enough to fit on a single side of the page
so that nothing at all was printed on the back. This makes the
printing take about three times as long as necessary.
What should have happened:
Files should be printed single-sided. Or, the man page should
list -h as a valid option for making double-sided printouts. At any
rate, the options to enscript should be consistent across athena
machines (I'm not certain, right now, whether they are or not.)
If this is an attempt to conserve paper by changing the athena
defaults, I'd appreciate warning before defaults change, and
instructions on how to print single-sided.
Pages short enough to not require actually printing anything
on the back should not be run through the paper-turner-overer (which
probably has a real name, but I don't know what it is), even if the
file is being printed two-sided. This slows down the whole print queue.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man enscript, on all platforms.
