Re: Printing blank pages

On Mon, 09 Sep 1996 15:45:53 +0100 SR <sean_rooney@bfs.unibol.com> wrote: > >Please, can anyone offer some advice. I am running Informix 4gl 7.x >on a SCO Openserver box. My problem is that every report job that >I send from Informix has a blank page appended at the bottom of the >report. Most print spoolers in a multi-user environment are set up to keep the printer pages aligned so that one user's output doesn't get mixed with another. A common way to do this is for the spooler to finish the final page of output for each print job. One possible cause of your problem is that your print spooler may be doing that after the Informix report has dones the same thing. You can verify that by having a Unix job print exactly a full page of output and see if the spooler "wastes" a trailing page like with the Informix job. I did a quick-and-dirty check with a couple of Ace reports I had laying around. Both use the detault page length. One has a PAGE TRAILER section and exactly fills the final output page. The other has no such section and does not fill the final page. You might investigate this area, then look at your spooler to see if there are any options to disable the final slew-top-page. If you have an active multi-user environment, you'll have to coordinate this with all of your other jobs, which may be pretty complicated. Good luck, Walt. -- Walt Hultgren Internet: walt@rmy.emory.edu (IP 170.140.97.4) Emory University UUCP: {...,gatech,rutgers,uunet}!emory!rmy!walt 954 Gatewood Road, NE BITNET: walt@EMORY Atlanta, GA 30329 USA Voice: +1 404 727 0648