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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21-Mar-18 07:02, Jordi Guillaumes
Pons wrote:<br>
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Some years ago I wrote a note to myself:
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<div class="">1) Create file SYS:LPFORMS:INI with the following
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style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">NORMAL:ALL/BANNER:01/HEADER:01/LINES:66/WIDTH:132/TRAILER:01</span></div>
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<div class="">2) In OPR: SHUTDOWN PRINTER 0</div>
<div class="">3) In OPR: START PRINTER 0/<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="DEVICE:LPT0">DEVICE:LPT0</a></div>
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<div class="">I don’t remember what problem I was trying to solve,
but right now this file exists and printing works. Hope it can
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LPFORM.INI tells LPTSPL how to process forms (the paper stock on
which a job is printed).<br>
The default form is "Normal". Form names with the same 4 initial
characters use the same stock; no operator intervention is required
to change among them. (This is used to allow specifying soft
parameters, such as the number of banner pages, per job.) If a job
requires different stock, the operator is notified.<br>
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The :ALL is a locator; it specifies which printer(s) the line refers
to. E.g. LPTnnn, or the reserved words 'LOC' or 'REM'. The
switches define the job format - BANNER is # of job header pages;
HEADER is number of header pages written before each file. TRAILER
is the job trailer. The rest in your example are self-explanatory.
There are more options; see the operator's guide and operator's
command language reference. for more detail.<br>
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I don't believe that LPFORM .INI is required, but it's a good idea
to have one. Mine contains:<br>
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NORMAL/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/RAM:LP96/VFU:NORMAL<br>
NARROW/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/WIDTH:80/RAM:LP96/VFU:NORMAL<br>
LABELS/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/WIDTH:100/RAM:LP64/VFU:LABELS<br>
66LINE/BANNER:1/HEADER:1/TRAILER:1/RAM:LP96/VFU:66LINE<br>
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With respect to the START command, /DEVICE is not required when
writing to the default printer. It's used when you have multiple
printers or want to redirect printer output to some other device -
usually a magtape -- e.g. when producing microform.<br>
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With remote (ANF-10) printers, it's qualified by /node<br>
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SYS:SYSTEM.CMD usually starts the printer; mine contains these lines
related to the printer:<br>
set printer 0 page-limit 2000<br>
start printer 0<br>
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The OP's issue is likely that the printer isn't ENABLEd in SimH.<br>
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