problem with form and printer file...I think

[Fairlight]

When asked his whereabouts on Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:24:17PM -0400,
Fairlight took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> However, another interesting facet is that I thought, "Okay, let's just try
> incremental filenames."  I inserted a counter and a reset of the printer
> filename.  I get two 27byte files and a third 1784 byte file.  The third
> large one is the actual page I get when using FORM.  The first two times
> through, it just spits out what I assume to be the init string for the
> printer.  It looks like it, starting with ESC-E and all...it's obviously
> longer, but there's no page contents to those files.

26 bytes.  I wasn't looking directly at it at the time I wrote the email.

> Then I checked docs.  FORM is supposedly only for clerk.  It's -working- in
> report, I'm not kidding.  The main report that I've copied is used from
> clerk, but I'm using it from report and it's actually printing.  I wonder
> if that's not part of my 23-byte page problem though.

And no, it's not working.  I'm using -f, which is telling it to use the
format--which it does...once.  It's not FORM/FORMM that's working, it's the
-F because I forgot to use -FP.  If I use -FP, I get one 26 byte file,
period.

My mistake.  (You can tell how often I mess with output in the *report
sense, right?)

Currently looking for a way to emulate -sr 1 in *clerk.  I seem to recall
something about using @once processing.  I'll try it.

mark->
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