Subject: How to print e-mail?

From: [email-masked] (Simone Shoemaker)
Date: 11 Jun 1996 14:30:48 GMT

I have never quite figured out how to correctly print out any e-mail 
messages. While in Pine, the only thing I seem to be able to do is click 
on "turn printer on" - but then it will print everything on the screen, 
including the commands on the bottom of the page. Plus it prints only one 
page at a time, so if there is more, I have to hit return, and it will 
continue - but then these commands wind up in the middle of the message, 
and often it will repeat two lines. 

Can somebody please help me figure out how to print messages neat and clean?
Would I have to save it to somewhere else first, as a file? But then what?
Help!

Simone

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:04:08 +0100 (BST)

It sounds like you are using a "Print Screen" button, or perhaps one that
turns the printer on so that EVERY character your terminal program
receives gets printed.  Instead you should....

1.  (Most Important)  Be using a terminal program that supports ANSI
printer control escape sequences.

These are sequences of special characters that Pine CAN send (if told to
do so) before displaying the message.  The sequence it performs is this:
	Send ANSI "Printer ON" code.
	Send message (which gets rerouted fro the screen to the printer).
	Send ANSI "Printer OFF" code.

This will ONLY work if your terminal program knows about and acts on the
Printer On/Off codes.  (If you don't know and can't find out then just try
it and see.)

2.  Tell Pine to use a locallay-attached printer in the above way.

You do this very simply... From the Main Menu go to the Setp Printer
screen ("S" then *"P"*).  Look at the screen descriptions, and select the
appropriate one from this section:

----------
Printer attached to IBM PC or compatible, Macintosh
    This may not work with all attached printers, and will depend on the
    terminal emulation/communications software in use. It is known to work
    with Kermit and the latest UW version of NCSA telnet on Macs and PCs,
    Versaterm Pro on Macs, and WRQ Reflections on PCs.
      Printer: attached-to-ansi
               attached-to-ansi-no-formfeed
----------

3.  Having done this try printing a message.

Do this by reading a message (or just highlighting it in the Index
screen), and then using the "Y" (prYnt) command.

If your terminal program DOES understand ANSI Printer On/Off codes the
message should come out nicely on your printer (assuming you remembered to
turn it on!:-)

If your terminal program DOESN'T understand the control codes then the
message will just go shooting up the screen instead.  Solution?  Obtain
and use a different terminal program that DOES understand the codes(!).

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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