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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: banner headers on xenix printouts
Message-ID: <218@omen.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:50:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: omen.218
Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:50:50 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:39:30 EDT
References: <627@deepthot.UUCP>
Reply-To: 4Eacaf@.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology, Portland
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Summary: 

In article <627@deepthot.UUCP> zaphod@deepthot.UUCP (Lance Bailey) writes:
>
>	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.
>
>what I want is :: name_banner
>		   
>		  files
>
>what I get is ::  name_banner
>		  
>		  name_banner
>		  
>		       <-- second form-feed that causes the blank page
>		  files
>
>since the spool area gets only the files, I get the feeling that the
>banners are put on by the device and therefore non-removable by me.
>That is, I should learn to live with  them.  
>
>question:: do other people have this problem?
>	   has anyone solved it?
>	   is  it even solvable?
>
The file you need to change is /etc/default/lpd.  I changed mine to:
============================== /etc/default/lpd ==============================
BANNERS=0
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