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Subject: Flag pages out of mail prints
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Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 23:38:00 EST
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        I have yet another question for the group.  Now that we are
connected into the network and have access to the outside world, I find
that I actually get some mail that is useful to me.  This reminded me of
yet another silly little problem that has been sitting in my pile of
things to do when I get some free time - meaning never.

        When you do a PRINT in VMS mail, it sends the current message
you are looking at out to the printer.  What it doen't do is put a flag
page on the front of it, even if the print queue is set up for
DEFAULT=FLAG.  Is there anyway to fix it so that I get a flag page?
Half page mail messages without a flag page have a tendancy to get left
with printout that printed before it on that printer and then get sent
to the wrong office.

        An associated question is this.  We have a bunch of dot matrix
printers spread around the campus in rooms where there are clusters of
terminals.  I have set SYLOGIN.COM so that it figures out where the
nearest of those printers is to the terminal a person is logging into
and then redifines PRINT to send output to that print queue.  The
problem is that MAIL doesn't seem to honor this symbol definition, which
isn't too suprising.  What does MAIL use to initiate the print, and is
there any good way to get a hook in there to do a redirection to some
queue other than SYS$PRINT?

Alan Sutter (ALAN@FANDM.BITNET)
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, PA 17604
(717) 291-4005