User`s guide

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Guide to Printers and Printing
Name Description Value
__FLG VALUES THAT MAY BE OVERRIDDEN WITH FLAGS ON THE
COMMAND LINE
_0 (not used)
_1 (not used)
_2 (not used)
_3 (not used)
_4 (not used)
_5 (not used)
_6 (not used)
_7 (not used)
_8 (not used)
_9 (not used)
_A stderr returned? 0: no; 1: yes, & pipelines; 2: 1
yes, & values, pipelines
_E Double–High Print. (!: no; +: yes)
_F (not used) Font file name
_G Page format (!: use only printable page +: use !
entire addressable area)
_H Name To Replace Host Name On Burst Page
_I Font ID (overrides pitch and type style)
_J Restore the Printer at the End of the Print Job? +
(!: no; +: yes)
_K (not used)
_L Wrap Long Lines (!: no; +: yes) +
_O Type of Input Paper Handling (1: manual, 3: 3
sheetfeed)
_Q Paper or Envelope Size For the Paper Source %IwQ
Selected By the –O and –u Flag Values (Refer to
the s0, s1, s2, s3, and s4 attributes); Default
value: %IwQ
_S High speed printing
_U Unidirectional printing
_V Vertical printing
_W Double–Wide Print (!: no; +: yes) !
_X Code Page Name For Print Data Stream (file with IBM–850
same name in dir. ”d1”)
_Y Duplex Output (0: Simplex 1: Duplex Long–Edge 2: 0
Duplex Short–Edge)
_Z Issue Form Feed Between Copies & At Job End (!: +
no; +: yes)
:
The output is formatted by the pg command, hence the full colon (:) at the bottom of the
display. The output above is only the first full screen. The rest is available through the
normal pg subcommands but will not be displayed here for reasons of brevity. This output is
view–only; the attributes cannot be modified.
Entering the name of an attribute, such as _w (page width in columns), and pressing Enter
will result in something like the following being displayed.
Name Description Value
_w Page Width (characters); Default Value: %IwX %IwX
(value based on paper size specified with s0 –
s5 attributes)
To LIST attributes, enter AttributeName1 ... (* for all attributes)
To CHANGE an attribute value, enter AttributeName=NewValue
To FORMAT and EDIT an attribute value, enter AttributeName~v
To EDIT the attribute file, enter ~v
To terminate, press Enter:
The name of the attribute is displayed, along with its text description from the message
catalog and its current value. The prompt is also redisplayed. Note that you do not have to
type the underscore for attributes whose name begin with an underscore. For example, the
results above could have been obtained by typing w and pressing Enter. This output is
view–only; the attribute cannot be modified.
Other attributes may be much harder to read in this form. For instance, entering ia at the
prompt and pressing Enter will result in something like the following being displayed: