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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Printing in Mush 7.1.0 & 7.2.0
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Date: 15 Nov 90 21:13:09 GMT
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In article <9011142125.AA17751@wurlitzer.East.Sun.COM> mjy@wurlitzer.East.Sun.COM (Michael J. Yoffee - NASE - NYNEX BC - Atlanta) writes:
> I have a filter called "mp" which is a basic "pretty print"
> program.  It simply takes input from stdin; wraps some postscript
> around the input; and outputs the "wrapped" data to stdout.
> For some reason (as of 7.1.0), this works fine when using the curses
> interface but, NOT when using the sunview interface on a 386i running
> SunOS 4.0.2.  The following (2) lines in my .mailrc seem to do the
> trick - at least for the curses version:
> 
> set printer=lw
> set print_cmd='mp | lpr'

The exact same code is executed for all modes: tty, curses and sunview.
If you get different results in any of the modes, I suspect you have
an "if tool" somewhere....
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dan
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