Subject: Pine: Printing to local printer

From: [email-masked] (Ben Cacace)
Date: 4 Aug 1994 12:50:19 -0400

[ Article crossposted from news.newusers.questions ]
[ Author was Ben Cacace ]
[ Posted on 4 Aug 1994 11:59:00 -0400 ]

Unfortunately I am having a problem printing some E-Mail 
using Pine.  I am using Pine ver 3.89 and the printer 
prints out short memos with no problems.  But when I try
to print out a memo of 48,958 or 49,039 I get a ProComm
error message saying "Procomm Error / Error printing to
printer".

I am an experienced PC user with some knowledge of Windows
(meaning I don't need to be spoon fed just yet ;)

Thanks for listening,
[email-masked]

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From: "Thomas J. Blauvelt" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 1994 16:24:02 -0400 (EDT)

> error message saying "Procomm Error / Error printing to

I have the same problem in Pine with certain printers printing multiple
page messages using the DOS version of Procomm (but not with all 
printers.)
The solution I found was to capture printer output to a disc file while
on-line and then use the DOS 'print' command to print the file off-line. I
use the PRNDSK.COM program written by David Rifkind. 

My guess is that there's a handshaking problem between the computer and
the printer which may be easier to work around than to try to fix, but
I would be very interested in an easier solution.

Thomas Blauvelt		North Country Reference & Research Resources Council
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