[gfsd]RE: Problem with -t flag in Gnu Enscript 1.6.1 running on AIX 4. 3.3

[Frickle, Joseph]

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Frickle, Joseph  
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 8:38 PM
> To:   'address@hidden'
> Subject:      Problem with -t flag in Gnu Enscript 1.6.1  running on AIX
> 4.3.3 
> 
> 
> 
>    Hi,
> 
> First I would like to thank you for   enhancements available in the GNU
> Enscript 1.6.1 facility. 
>  The Adobe version 1.0 enscript provided on  the AIX OS CD's   does not
> provide a means for modifying the
> pages margins and baselin skip which presently has me tied to using a
> 7point font in 
> order to get 66 line/page reports to page break correctly.
> My users complain this font is too small.  Using the -s0 and
> --margins=5:5:5:5 flags provided with the
> GNU version 1.6.1 allows me to use a 9 point font which they will like a
> lot better.
> 
> Now for the problem: 
> 
> Under the GNU 1.6.1 version I cannot get the -t flag to work properly.
> I am trying to get information passed via -t flag , -J flag or --title
> flag  to show up in the AIX
> v 4.3.3  header page on the TITLE line.  Instead of the "Distribute to
> Accounting"  or what ever values
> that our application want to pass via the -t flag,  I get STDIN.NNNNN
> (where  Ns are a number
> that is different with each report)  on the TITLE line.  If I do not
> specify a -t (or -J or --title) flag  I still
> get the STDIN.NNNNN value for the TITLE line on the banner page instead of
> the file name I am printing.
> 
>   Environment is GNU enscript v 1.6.1  installed via IBM's  AIX toolbox
> for Linux Applications
> media which installs via RPM.  System is at AIX 4.3.3 Maint level 10.  
> However I have also tried the GNU endcript 1.6.1 available at this link.
> 
> ftp://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/pub/enscript/RISC/4.3/exec/enscript.1.6.1.ta
> r.Z
> 
> In either case the -t flag did not work as expected.
> 
> 
>   Command sample :
> 
> /usr/linux/bin/enscript -c -i5 -s0 -DDuplex:true -r -dtestxrx_ps -n1 -t
> "Deliver to Joe Frickle" -L 66 -B -fCourier9 --margins=5:5:5:5
> NYRCRL_ORD__20010425_163637.REP  
> 
> 
> The Manpages I have seen on the web for GNU Enscript 1.6.1 state that   -t
> " Sets Banner Pages Title to Title .  Option sets also
> the name of the input file stdin."   Thie way I read this the TITLE lline
> should be either the filename being printed or the value passed via the -t
> flag.
> 
> In the Adobe 1.0 version of enscript (running on this same box) when I run
> enscript  
> the -t flag's value is printed on the TITLE line on the separator page and
> if I do not use a -t flag the
> name of the file prints on the TITLE line.  Sample command using Adobe 1.0
> enscript follows:
>  
> enscript -c   -r -dtestxrx_ps -n1 -t "Deliver to Joe Frickle" -L 66 -B
> -fCourier7 NYRCRL_ORD__20010425_163637.REP    
> 
> 
> Any help you can provide is appreciated.  I really need to fix the font
> size but the distribution information is
> essential as well.  I am stuck on 7 point fonts using Adobe 1.0 until I
> get some help with this. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joe Frickle
> Systems Engineer V
> Verizon Information Services
> 972 453-7547  
> address@hidden
>  
>