Posted by Jim Guerber (66.180.141.206) on October 29, 2003 at 08:27:45:
I have noticed recent talk about inconvenient extra blank lines on the top of a page especially using CFORM. Brian tells me that those are caused by print statements which do not contain a (TR) mnemonic. If you do not put a (TR) mnemonic on EVERY line that you print, COSP counts up these lines and emits a cr/lf for each one once the form is generated.
This does not seem like an easy way to program to me. Assuming that this is the cause of the page miss-alignment, I have added a mnemonic to Comet that allows you to put the printer (by LUN) into a state where it will not emit these extra cr/lf characters at the end of each line. We have not built the mnemonic yet, but the facility is there. It will be implemented in build 328 of comet 2003 and 2004.
The effect of the mnemonic will be on until the printer is closed, or a mnemonic is issued to turn it off. The effect will persist over an EXIT statement, allowing an ENTER program to turn on the effect.
What do you think about this?