Subject: Ascii printing in Pine

From: Mahbuba Ferdousi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 12:55:20 -0400 (EDT)

Hi!

I have a question on Pine. we are trying to print from a Mac using Telnet
2.5 and an Imagewriter attached to it directly to the Phone line. I used
the option in Pine "attached to ansii" and tried to print, it tells me it
is printing, but nothing comes out. Print selection works. Do you have any
suggestions for me?? Are other people able to print??

Also do you know if Pine for RS6000 is here?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Mahbuba

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From: Brian Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 11:22:45 -0700 (PDT)

I dial in occasionally from my Mac at home using Microphone and print to a
laserwriter with no probs. I think it is your software.

Brian Williams			Automation Manager
Multnomah County Library  	801 SW 10th  Portland, OR 97205
(503)248-5227 (v) (503)248-5226 (f) [email-masked]

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From: Joel Ness <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 14:01:57 -0600

Local printing requires that your communication program be able to handle the
excape sequences that Pine sends and then route the text to a printer. The Pine
docs say that this is possible on the Mac with some comm programs (I think they
mention VersaTerm, and it looks like Microphone works, too). I know that Telnet
won't work.

Telnet does allow you to select text on the screen and then print the selection.
Unfortunately, Pine does it's scrolling in a way that doesn't let Telnet capture
text that has "scrolled past". Thus you can't scroll back through your Telnet
window and select more than one screenful of your message (for printing or
copying). This is one of the few advantages of elm and the reason some of our
users haven't switched to Pine. 

I don't think this lack of scrollback capture is a Pine "bug", I think it's just
related to how tightly integrated the interface is.

>   I dial in occasionally from my Mac at home using
>   Microphone and print to a laserwriter with no probs. I
>   think it is your software.
>   

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