form feed within KSH script

[unmlobo]

Our current dotmatrix printer does not form feed when you send something to print. I have worked with the makers and also with the sun gods but to no avail. I was trying to write a script that I can cat a file to and have the script form feed and print for me. Any ideas?

 

[Chacalinc]

man ascii:
Oct DEC Hex Char
012 10 0A LF '\n'
014 12 0C FF '\f'
015 13 0D CR '\r'

LF: Line Feed
FF: Form Feed
CR: you know..

Cheers

 

[unmlobo]

I tried to use the \f and the FF in single quotes and db quotes and nothing. Here is the scrit that I currently have.

#!/bin/ksh

"\f"

lp -d oki

Thats it. Nothing fancy. What am I doing wrong?

 

[vgersh99]

#!/bin/ksh
# $1 - file to print

($(printf "\f"; cat ${1}) | lp -d oki

vlad
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