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Foil 71 Page Limits and Positions
(Chapter 11 of Llama Book)

From PERL4 Tutorial for CPS616 Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 -- February 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 $= or $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE is number of lines to be output on each page
2 It can be changed in same way already described for $~. The Filehandle module can be invoked so that
3 $= = 66; # is equivalent to
4 format_lines_per_page FILEHANDLE 66; # if FILEHANDLE is currently selected
5 $- or $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT is the number of lines left on page for currently selected output channel
  • Reset $- to zero to force top of form
6 Note $^L or $FORMAT_FORMFEED which defaults to \f and is formfeed to use at top of page
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