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Re: pine printing question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Helmut Riegler)
Thu Jul 4 05:11:34 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 08:59:28 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Helmut Riegler <helmut%gurk@klu3.net4you.co.at>
Reply-To: helmut-riegler@server.net4you.co.at
To: Fei Chen <fchen@emerald.tufts.edu>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960703230053.10180A-100000@emerald.tufts.edu>
On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Fei Chen wrote:
> hi net,
>
> i just dicovered that i could print email messages directly from within
> pine to my HP5MP printer, which was only set up to do postscript
> printing. i'm just curious about how this works.
>
> i have linux 1.2.0 running c-kermit. my printer is only setup to do
> postscript printing (i'm too lazy to set up magicfilters and stuff).
> i dial into school's unix machine with kermit, fire up pine from there
> and check my mail. but i never knew that i could print directly from
> within pine to my printer until tonight it was discovered by my
> girlfriend by mistake. how does this work?
In the main menu there is a menu item setup. Then choose printer and here
you can enter the command which prints your file. It can even be a own
shell script.
In your case the shell script must use a2ps (Ascii to Postscript) to
convert your ascii files so that your printer can print it. a2ps is very
nice and has many options.
You write that shell script in that way that it also works as a filter so
that you can use it as input filter in your /etc/printcap. (Take a look
at the 'if' entry) It is not necessary to use apsfilter and /etc/printcap
is not so difficult to configure.
My expieriences with apsfilter are not so good because sometimes it
chooses the wrong way to print a file. I have a lot of gzipped raw
printer graphics files and some of them doesn't work properly.
And the most times I know what I am printing.
Helmut
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