Subject: Qmodem and "attached-to-ansi" Printing Problem

From: Eric Force <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 19:50:22 -0500

I'm trying to resolve a printing problem for a friend using
Qmodem V4.5 as his PC communications software. It appears
that Qmodem does not understand the ansi escape sequences
for printing which are sent by PINE when invoking the "Y"
(attached-to-ansi print) function.

Since I use TELIX, I'm not that familiar with Qmodem. Does
anyone know if it's possible to configure Qmodem to recognize
these ansi escape sequences. If it can't be done then I'll
get him to switch to TELIX but I'm trying to save him the
agony of beginning yet another learning curve.

Many thanks in advance. 

Eric

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From: [email-masked] (michael wallendahl)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 05:55:29 GMT

Eric Force ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I'm trying to resolve a printing problem for a friend using
: Qmodem V4.5 as his PC communications software. It appears
: that Qmodem does not understand the ansi escape sequences
: for printing which are sent by PINE when invoking the "Y"
: (attached-to-ansi print) function.

I may be wrong, but I think that the "print-to-attched-printer" only 
works under vt100 style emulation.  

I use TeleMate myself, and it works perfectly when I use VT-102 
emulation.  Just hit "Y" and out comes my e-mail on my dot matrix. :)

Good luck.

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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 00:54:57 -0500 (EST)

> emulation.  Just hit "Y" and out comes my e-mail on my dot matrix. :)
 
Problem is, the vt100/vt102 terminal emulation in many telecomm programs 
is incomplete, so the software doesn't know what to do with the print 
job.  In some cases the message text prints to the screen instead of to 
the printer.  In other cases, nothing happens at all.
 
The workaround is to use Pine's export command (e) to save the message as 
a text file in your home directory, then cat the file to your screen, 
capturing it on the fly to your own computer, or download it to your 
computer and print it from there.
 
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