IBM 4400 Series, User Manual

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Chapter 5
Unix Troubleshooting Tips
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Stair-Stepped Output
Stair-stepped output is print which starts at the top left of the page
but every line thereafter starts a little further over to the right. It also
refers to Unix jobs that print one line of text at the top of a page
followed by a series of blank pages.
This kind of output happens only with Unix text jobs if carriage
return insertion is not incorporated into the print setup. The printer
may be told to do a linefeed, but the Unix job does not specify
anything about a carriage return to follow this.
To fix this, carriage return insertion must be enabled somewhere in
the print setup. The easiest and most common location is on the
Ethernet Interface itself within the appropriate model. The feature is
called “onlcr” and the command syntax is:
set model modelname stty onlcr
save
For example, if printing to the destination,
d1prn
, the associated
model is
m1
. Therefore, the command is:
set model m1 stty onlcr
save