Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!compugen!john
From: john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: problems with the 'p' command
Message-ID: <2437@compugen.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 12:38:49 GMT
Distribution: comp
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I want the print cmd to do the equivalent of
$ localprint %s

On my machine, 'localprint' is a script that sends its argument (a filename)
to the terminal. My terminal has a printer attached to its auxilary port.
Note that 'localprint' is a script which runs without error from the shell
outside elm. However, from within elm it doesn't have any output at all.

I then tried specifying a script called 'testprint' that merely echoes
its args.
#-------
echo the arg of testprint is $1
#-------
I specified the elm print cmd line as 'testprint %s'. Still no output.
What's the problem? And therefore what's the solution (if the problem is
tricky)? 

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