Page Break

[Mark A Nelson]

How do I put a page break in a text file. So when I print the file
it's on different pages

[James Moneypenny]

Mark,


The ASCII formfeed character is decimal 12.

This will only work if the text is sent directly to the printer and assuming the printer supports standard text files. (I have run into a few Windows only printers that need Windows print drivers to print. Similar to a winmodem not supporting Hayes commands )

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[Mark A Nelson]

do you have any code for this ?

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[Eric Pearson]

If you're printing pure text with LPRINT, try...

LPRINT CHR$(12);

-- Eric

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[Andy Anderson]

James,

>This will only work if the text is sent directly to the printer

Not true, see the thread in the PC/CC section of this forum
titled: Need advice on printing to a dot matrix printer.

Moreover, direct printing over a network could wreak havoc. MS
may even disallow this in future versions of Windows.

Your right, though, about the printer needing to offer ESC (text)
services before $FF (CHR$(12)) insertion will work.

Andy
THREE Systems

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[Mark A Nelson]

Any code out here for printing right to a printer??

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[James Moneypenny]

Andy,

What I mean by "directly" is sending raw data (Using LPRINT as Eric suggested or copying to LPT port) to the printer. As for printing over the network, Windows still lets us use NET USE to capture the LPT port to a network printer even if the hardware port does not exist.

Thanks for pointing that out. My misuse of the word "directly".
James

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[Mark A Nelson]

Thank You ,

I am going to try that ??

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[E B Knoppert]

We installed the plain text printer driver..



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