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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Mail - How can I quickly print a mail msg?
Message-ID: <1628@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 13:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 13:25:00 1987
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In article <4533@nsc.nsc.com> grenley@nsc.UUCP (George Grenley) writes:
>I would like to be able to print a mail message from mail.  Currently,
>I save the message, then print them when I exit.  I would prefer to
>just print it, without creating a file, as I don't want to keep it
>around on disk.  I use 4.3bsd and csh.
>
>Can anybody help?

Here's an inelegant but painless solution...

In your .mailrc file, include the following:

	alias print |lpr

Then, when you have a message you wish to print, after reading it, send
it on to the mock-user "print".  If you read message 5, for example...

	& m print
        ~f 5
        ^D

(If you wish to provide this capability system-wide, put the alias in
/usr/lib/aliases instead of your .mailrc file.)
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