Re: Form Feed in SQL*Plus

dtrum_at_jetssrg.af.mil (David Trum x4772) writes:
:
: To put a form feed in SQL*Plus, I add the following line BEFORE
: my select:
:
: ttitle left '^L'
:
: The control-L is a form feed and works on my SCO unix systems and
: Suns talking to HP and postscript printers (using a ps translator).
:

Is this an actual <FF> ie. Octal 014 or a caret + L?

Also, Is this the way you can embed <ESCAPE> sequences to, for example, set the laser printer into condensed or landscape mode? If not how can you send <escape> sequences from SQL*PLUS to set up the printer in the mode that you want?

Lez

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