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Re: pine printing question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Smith)
Thu Jul 4 12:33:08 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:14:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Smith <root@bonk.netbiz.net>
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:
> 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?
It most likely just dumps the contents into /dev/lp0 (equiv. to LPT1).
