Printing problems Vax to Unix

[Jonathan Bickel]

Glenn,
   
  As a super quick-and-dirty, you can use awk a/o sed to massage the file before you print it.  Specifically you can add control strings to set the font at the top of the file, convert record terminators, etc.  If you need the control string values for the printer that you're talking to, printing to a file from Word can help you capture these values easily.
   
  Is this approach...
  Elegant? No.  
  Flexible between printers from various manufacturers? No.  
  Obscure and potentially tedious to maintain? Yes.
  Easy to get up and running without extensive research? Yes.
   
  jb
  

Ken Langendock <Ken at Langendock.com> wrote:
          Glenn, Are you ftp'ing them in Binary mode?
   
  As for the Font size, you may have to add an INITIAL HEADING to set the font to the correct size for the printer you are trying to print on. Vax's have defaults that work well with printers...UNIX machines don't seem to care about anything.
   
  Ken
   
  
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From: powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Gipman
Sent: August 29, 2006 2:13 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: Printing problems Vax to Unix


  Hi,
   
  Here's the situation:
   
  The client has just moved into a new office and (because of politics) the vax print queues no longer exist. So Quiz reports are being written to disc, transferred to a Unix box using SFTP, then printed from there. It seems that this should work OK but the reports are not printing properly. One problem is the font size. The 2nd problem is the control characters are being interpreted as garbage. 
   
  Help! I need a quick fix.
   
  Any help will be much appreciated.
   
  Thanks
   
  Glenn Gipman - Vancouver, B.C.
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