paper size and filePro printing

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jim Asman propounded (on Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:59:16AM -0800):
| --------------- Original Message ---------------
| At 02:10P Wed Nov 09 2005, Butch Ammon wrote:
| 
| > Good afternoon....
| > 
| > This question was asked from my Minneapolis office regarding filePro and 
| setting
| > up an output report (dreport).
| > 
| > Is there a way to setup the paper size/output format size to use 11x17 big 
| size 
| > paper?  Such as set the output format to be landscape but 255 characters 
| wide.
| > 
| > They have tried numerous things and doodled around with different local 
| printer 
| > settings and it doesn't work.  It still prints like it is 8 1/2 x 11 size 
| and 
| > wraps all the text around.
| > 
| > SCO O/S 5
| > filePro 4.8."something"
| > PowerTerm emulator on Win2000 PC's
| > HPLaser print w/ multiple paper trays
| > 
| > Simply put:  Is there way to use define output and lay out the format to be 
| huge
| > to 255 characters landscape onto an 11 x 17 piece of paper?
| > 
| 
| Butch,
| 
| Define a new printcode as follows...
| 
| $1b &l26a1o6d3e60F
| 
| that is a lowercase ell after the &

Why is the A4 paper size appropriate for this job?

-- 
JP