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Re: pine printing question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Azathoth)
Sat Jul 6 03:35:23 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 22:12:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Azathoth <kdoherty@binx.mbhs.edu>
To: Adam Smith <root@bonk.netbiz.net>
cc: Fei Chen <fchen@emerald.tufts.edu>, linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960704121329.107C-100000@bonk.netbiz.net>
On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Adam Smith wrote:
> 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).
No, it generates a vt102 escape sequence to print, which is (should be)
interpreted by your comm program. I don't use c-kermit, i dunno how it
handles this. (btw, this is why it takes proportionately longer to print
longer files, cause it isn't just spooling them, which would take very
little time, but actually printing the whole message to your terminal).
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