Subject: print before sending in COMPOSE

From: Bob Allan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 13:38:11 -0400

Hello! A rookie's question. I would like sometimes to print my composition 
for proofreading or consultation before sending but there seems to be no
command for this in PINE. Is it possible? Thanks in advance. Bob Allan

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 13:27:59 +0200 (CEST)

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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Bob Allan wrote:

  >Hello! A rookie's question. I would like sometimes to print my
  >composition for proofreading or consultation before sending but there
  >seems to be no command for this in PINE. Is it possible? Thanks in
  >advance. Bob Allan

Strangely enough, afaics, pico in pine doesn't support spell. *hmpf* It
doesn't support piped commands either. To say the least, this suxx.

Easiest (and imao best) thing to do is use an alternate editor. It can be
set in M(ain), S(etup), C(onfig). emacs would be a nice choice. Otherwise,
I'd suggest using an alternate editor that supports spellchecking.

HTH :-/

Robin

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From: Bob Allan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 14:31:58 -0400 (EDT)

Dear Robin and Discussion Group
	Thanks for your quick response to my query. I have earlier to-day
responded to Joe Young as follows: I mentioned this problem to a
graduate student in our chemistry program who came up with a good, simple,
solution that might be of interest.

	It is possible when in COMPOSE to POSTPONE the piece, go to MAIN,
then to POSTPONED MESSAGES and finally to PRINT. It works fine!
 Thanks, Bob Allan.

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Robin S Socha wrote:

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 8 May 1997 20:03:47 GMT

> Dear Robin and Discussion Group

uh-oh...

> I have earlier to-day responded to Joe Young as follows: I mentioned this
> problem to a graduate student in our chemistry program who came up with a
> good, simple, solution that might be of interest.  It is possible when in
> COMPOSE to POSTPONE the piece, go to MAIN, then to POSTPONED MESSAGES and
> finally to PRINT. It works fine!

You could alternally use a better editor or the program "screen"
(which allows to switch between programs on the terminal)
and simply start whatever program in another window.

	http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/

Right now one "window" runs my shell (zsh), another has my editor (vim),
one more has my newsreader (slrn) and in another I run my mailer (mutt).
And if I should need a printout of some file then I switch to my shell
and let "a2ps" do some magic on the file and hand it over to "lpr".  :-)

Sven

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Ming Rudat)
Date: 10 May 1997 10:45:24 GMT

Robin S Socha ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Strangely enough, afaics, pico in pine doesn't support spell. *hmpf* It
: doesn't support piped commands either. To say the least, this suxx.

pico seeps to support spell on the school's general access system, at
least is says is does, but I don't think that the computer does, for some
very odd reason.

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