Subject: standard-printer is a list ?

From: [email-masked] (Avery Earle)
Date: 22 Jul 1996 00:01:17 GMT

in 3.95 unix, I can say in /usr/local/lib/pine.conf

standard-printer=lpr -Pthis, lpr -Pthat, lpr -Pother

in order to offer three printers. So far so good. Now,
the setup printer screen looks (in part) like this
-------------------------------------------------------------------

 Standard UNIX print command
      Using this option may require setting your "PRINTER" or "LPDEST"
      environment variable using the standard UNIX utilities.
        Printer List: ""                      lpr -Pthis
                      ""                      lpr -Pthat
                      ""                      lpr -Pother

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Question:  are those quote marks surrounding some descriptive
text, and how do I specify that?

Regards.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:45:21 +0100 (BST)

The syntax is:

	standard-printer=<entry>[, <entry> ...]

(where the "[" and "...]" are not actually typed but merely used here to
represent possible repetition)

where an <entry> is:

	Descriptive name [] command string

(this time the "[]" really *is* entered).

I found this by the simple expedient of adding a custom (personal) ptimy
command using the Setup Printer screen, looking at what it had put in the
.pinerc file, and then assuming the format was the same for the standard
printer.

It's probably documented somewhere or other too (but I thought it was
easier to do it my way).

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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