Re: Printing blank pages

SR wrote: > > Please, can anyone offer some advice. I am running Informix 4gl 7.x No, you're not, as there's no such animal. My guess is your engine in 7.x, and you're running 4GL 6.x (not that it matters). > 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. This is obviously environmentally unfriendly and nauseating for > my users. I am not using the "eject page" or "skip to top of page" > commands anywhere. If I print using "lp" from unix, no blank page is > added. This has led me to believe that perhaps I can instruct Informix > not to add this blank page. > Try running the same report to a file and see if there are a lot of blank lines at the bottom of the file. I suspect you either have PAGE LENGTH set wrong (laser printers typically have 60 lines/page instead of the Informix (legacy) default of 66, although you have a lot of control of that via hardware setups. //////////////// ======================================================= ////////// // Dennis J. Pimple Informix Software, Inc. ////// / /// Principal Consultant 5299 DTC Blvd Suite 740 ///// // //// dennisp@informix.com Englewood CO 80111 //// // ///// /// // ////// recept: 303-850-0210 // // /////// direct: 303-740-5611 Opinions expressed are mine, / /////////// fax: 303-843-6408 and do not necessarily //////////////// http://www.informix.com reflect those of my employer