On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 11:19 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 09:45 -0400, Ed Gurski wrote: > > Or some pre-printed form's wording is incorrect, and you the > > programmer were supposed to notice it after printing 50 boxes of > > paper!!!! > > You'd often see that sort of thing when someone thought they could do a > better job of working out where the top of the form was, and they'd > count lines in their program, doing all form placement using line feeds. > Instead of not trying to print on all available lines, telling the > printer the real form height, and using a form-feed command to let the > printer find the top. Absolutely the worst case for this was when printing checks. VOID VOID VOID VOID... > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs