home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!twong
- From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Setting up a postscript printer....
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 20:00:56 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1k9e1oINN59n@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- References: <1k4hovINNmhs@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Jan27.141600.19282@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca
-
- In article <1993Jan27.141600.19282@clark.dgim.doc.ca> don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca writes:
- >from man printcap ...
- >
- > sh bool false suppress printing of burst
- > page header
- >
-
- Hi there. Thanks for the suggestion.
- Is there a way to keep the burst page though? On a multiuser environment
- like Unix, and having multiple users printing, it'd be nice to keep a
- burst page before each job so that if we have 2 (or more) users printig
- out data files, for example. It'd be quite a chore looking through
- each page of the printout to find where the end of the first data
- file is and where the next one begins. Whereas a burst page would separate
- jobs nicely.
-
- On another note. I must say I'm quite surprised by the replies I have
- been getting (or the lack of). I thought we were doing things the
- ancient ways by not using postscript. I thought everyone out there
- would have a postscript printer on their Sun if they have a printer at
- all. But from the replies I have received so far, only a few actually
- uses a postscript printer. And those who does use Newsprint. Nobody
- uses lpr anymore?? Hhmm... I thought this was a simple question and
- everyone else have already been using postscript for printing (with
- lpr) for a long time. I guess I was wrong. Postscript on Unix isn't
- catching on like I thought.
-
- Thomas.
-
-