Subject: pine print

From: [email-masked] (Matthew Bazoian)
Date: 6 Jul 1996 21:56:33 GMT

Reading a message and on occasion desiring a hard copy I press Y for ansi 
sys printing .All is well, but it always is followed by a form feed and 
an extra plain sheet is extruded from printer.This occurs in two BBS 
sites I happen to use . I have tried several options in Setup printer 
configuration without success. Btw I have recently changed printers from 
a Canon bubble jet to a Okidata ol600e ,for unrelated reasons, but the 
irritation continues.Any help will be appreciated.

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Howie)
Date: 10 Jul 1996 02:15:18 GMT

Matthew Bazoian ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Reading a message and on occasion desiring a hard copy I press Y for ansi 
: sys printing .All is well, but it always is followed by a form feed and 
: an extra plain sheet is extruded from printer.This occurs in two BBS 
: sites I happen to use . I have tried several options in Setup printer 
: configuration without success. Btw I have recently changed printers from 
: a Canon bubble jet to a Okidata ol600e ,for unrelated reasons, but the 
: irritation continues.Any help will be appreciated.

Prior to printing to 'attached to ansi', Pine sends an ANSI setup sequence
esc-5i (I think) to the printer, then resets it with an esc-6i.  It's not
the printer you're using, but rather the terminal emulator package you use
to connect to the host you're running Pine on. 

e.g. NCSA supposedly eats these control codes and interprets them 
properly. Try the same thing, but use a different terminal emulator to 
get to the host - that may "cure" it. I think I'm just going to cut these 
to lines out of the source to see if it makes a difference.

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