topic Adding a trailing FormFeed Chareter in Operating System - HP-UX

Adding a trailing FormFeed Chareter

Marty Metras — Thu, 18 May 2006 10:45:39 GMT

I have a few reports (Text files) that get printed and they do not form feed like they should.
I need a tempurary fix. This would to insert a formfeed char on the end of the text file to force a formfeed.
How do I insert a formfeed charater into a text file? Well, how would put any control char into a text file.
Something like cat "control nnn" >>filename.txt

Marty

Re: Adding a trailing FormFeed Chareter

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 18 May 2006 10:55:52 GMT

echo "\f\c" >> filename.txt

Re: Adding a trailing FormFeed Chareter

Marty Metras — Thu, 18 May 2006 10:57:18 GMT

Great!
Thanks,
Marty

Re: Adding a trailing FormFeed Chareter

Steve Post — Fri, 19 May 2006 07:07:20 GMT

If you are making a file with vi by hand,
If you are printing to a laserjet:

Then...
You can put a page break in a text file in vi by doing this:
1. go to the spot I want the page break.
2. type i (insert)
3. type control-V (means take the next character literally)
4. type control-L (means form feed to hp laserjets).
5. escape.