Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>  wrote:
 > On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Peter Seebach wrote:
 > 
 > > Yes, there's "genscript-x.y.z" at prep.ai.mit.edu.  It even has a feature
 > > to generate the patently *wrong* ^D<cr> expected by some broken HP printers.
 > > (And Xerox printers, I must admit.)
 > 
 > OK, I'll bite.  What's wrong with expecting <EOT><CR>?  (It sounds
 > inconvenient, but that's hardly the same as broken...)

If I remember correctly, that was done (in QMS printers too I might add)
so that the printer might gain some insight as to when a job was finished
and it could return to it's default settings or something to that effect.

It's always irritated me but I've learned to "just deal".