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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: print option problems
Message-ID: <100@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 03:30:14 GMT
References: <198696@hrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <198696@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
>
>I am trying to use the 'p' option to print my mail, but even though elm
>tells me that the message has been sent to printer, it does not get
>printed.
># how to print a message ('%s' is the filename)
>print = cat | lp -dprinter

Your almost there with this one.  It's

print = cat %s | lp -dprinter

The reason the lp -dprinter %s doesn't work is probably that elm deletes
the temporary file and lp cannot find it after its gone.  I believe
lp has an option to make a copy, but the cat method also solves the problem
where lp has no permission to read the directory where the file resides.
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