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From: crehta@tasu77.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: mp -m and mush
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Date: 20 Nov 89 10:12:54 GMT
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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A request from mush.Gods:

Is it possible to add an option to disable the pagefeeds
mush inserts between messages in a multi-message lpr?

In my print_cmd, I use mp 2.3, which has a -m option to deal
with multi-message printing.  When fed to mp -m, The added 
pagefeeds cause a blank page to be inserted between each
two messages in the output.

My ugly solution was

set print_cmd="sed 's/^^LFrom/From/' | mp -m | laser_printer"

A nice solution might be adding a variable called, say,
intra_message_string, which will default to '^L' (Control L);
the value of this variable will be inserted between messages
in a multi-message printing, enabling the user to customise
multi-message output.

-- Ran

P.S. mp is a program which produces output for mail messages
and news articles, in a neat postscript format.  mp 2.3
was just posted to alt.sources and you can probably still
catch it before it expires.  The Subject header confusingly 
says "mp part 2" but don't be discouraged: it's all there in
tar-compress-uuencode format.
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
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