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From: jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Problem with Print Command
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.152134.1250@ora.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:21:34 GMT
References: <maassen.678015703@kreon>
Organization: O'Reilly and Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA
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In article <maassen.678015703@kreon> maassen@kreon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Maassen) writes:
> Xmh*PrintCommand: mp -l | lpr -Plaser -h -c  >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
> 
> With this print command, nothing happens, although the command
> as such is correct, since it works if I type it into a shell.

The problem is that xmh tacks the filenames to print onto the *end* of
the command line, after the pipe.  The command xmh runs to print
messages 1 and 2 in your inbox will be like:

	mp -l | lpr -Plaser -h -c  >/dev/null 2>/dev/null inbox/1 inbox/2

Write a little shell script that puts the filenames (inbox/1 inbox/2)
in the right place and use that shell script as the Xmh*PrintCommand.

The "MH & xmh" Nutshell Handbook has an "xmhprint" shell script in
section 12.8.  You can get a copy of it by anonymous ftp or uucp
from uunet.uu.net in the file nutshell/MHxmh/MHxmh.tar.Z.

--Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com or uunet!ora!jerry