Subject: Printing Question

From: Mark Rector <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 May 96 10:13:23 -0700

We are experiencing a small problem when printing email messages received 
from one particular address. All other messages print normally. The 
problem occurs when printing a message originating from 
[email-masked]. The message displays normally on screen, 
but when printed out, each paragraph is printed on one line so is 
truncated on output. This doesn't happen with any other messages and the 
support staff at the Grad school say it is our printer.

Do you know of any fix or workaround for this? Thanks in advance.

_________________________________
Mark Rector
School of Art
Box 353440
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

Phone: (206) 616-7320
Email: [email-masked]
       [email-masked]
_________________________________

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 11:34:37 -0700 (PDT)

Mark,
I notice that cedar.grad.washington.edu is an NT box.  This suggests
that you may be receiving mail from a Microsoft mail program.
One of the things we've noticed about Microsoft mail programs is that they
have the nasty habit of sending entire paragraphs as a single line in the
mail message. 

When you display such a message, Pine will wrap the long lines on the
screen, but I don't believe does so for printing... You could test this
(and work-around the problem) by printing via a filter that wraps long
lines.

If this hypothesis is correct, the Microsoft software is clearly at fault,
but I don't know what the odds are of getting it fixed.  I suppose a case
could also be made for Pine to auto-wrap on printing...

-teg