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A-Shell Consolidated Reference

AUTOFF = <Boolean>

(Unix only) This option (which defaults to off) may be turned on to have A-Shell itself take over the task of putting a trailing form feed on the end of a print file when required by your spooler switches. Note that in order for this to work, you must use a printer filter which never adds a trailing form feed. For SCO we supply one on our web site called dumbnoff (copy it to /usr/spool/lp/model). For most other Unix flavors, you can simply select a "dumb" or "null" printer filter (aka "driver" or "model").

AUTOFF can be used in conjunction with STRIPFFpq and FORMFEEDpq (which see) to reconcile different applications’ approaches to form feeds.