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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: print option problems
Message-ID: <4929@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 89 04:04:08 GMT
References: <198696@hrc.UUCP> <100@dsinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <100@dsinc.UUCP> syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) writes:
+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.

Actually another reason why it doesn't work is that a filename as an
argument to System V lp(1) must be readable by "other", and for security
reasons ELM creates temp files with permissions 0600.
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