Subject: printing from pine

From: [email-masked] (Mark Drone)
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:38:19 -0500

I would like to find out how to print to my Stylewriter from PINE.  I've
run the setup and selected the local print option, but can't get it to
work.  Thanks

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:51:34 +0000 (GMT)

As you mention a StyleWriter I am assuming you are using an Apple Macintosh.

I am also assuming that you are running a terminal emulator (eg, NCSA 
Telnet) on the Macintosh and then logging in to a UNIX computer, from 
where you then run Pine.

Pine, being a UNIX program, knows about the UNIX system's printers.  It 
does not know about any printer you have attached to your Macintosh.

Well, almost...

By going to the Setup Printer screen you can tell Pine to use an 
"attached-to-ansi" option.  This causes Pine to send the message text 
down the connection to your machine surrounded by special codes to start 
and stop an attached printer.

If and only if your terminal emulator recognises and acts on these 
"printer start" and "printer stop" codes can it redirect the arriving 
text to the printer.

Thus in order for this to work your terminal emulator MUST support these 
codes.

The free Mac Kermit program doesn't (I think).
NCSA Telnet version 2.6 onwards does (the current version is 2.7b4).

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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