Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!beth From: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: banner headers on xenix printouts Message-ID: <250@gymble.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:54:57 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.250 Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:54:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 05:31:31 EDT References: <627@deepthot.UUCP> <1042@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 16 >> I have an IBM AT running XENIX. When I output to the printer, >> I get a nice banner telling who printed the file. Unfortunatly, >> the AT thinks that this banner is so nice that it outputs it twice. Followed >> by an extraneous blank page. To get just your output, use the following shell script. (You can also just use the one line, but I don't like remembering such things.) # cat $1 > /dev/lp & I put this in /usr/beth/bin/p and then just type 'p filename'. I make no claims for this working with all printers. It seems to work well with the standard IBM Graphics printer. It seems simple enough to work with any printer. Beth Katz Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!beth