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- From: chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal)
- Subject: Re: Wishlist item for "next" patch
- Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:38:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.183832.20710@chinacat.unicom.com>
- References: <1992Dec18.204149.25084@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.204149.25084@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- klr@umbc4.umbc.edu (Kurt Reisler) writes:
- >1) change the default_printout string to be "cat %s | mp | lpr -Psmurf"
- >(on the BSD boxes) and "cat %s | mp | lp -dsmurf" (where smurf is a LPS-20
- >Postscript networked printer)
-
- You should set "default_printout" to simply something like "elm-print"
- and furnish a script by that name that decides whether to do a SysV
- or BSD print.
-
- >2) prepend a "." to the name of all
- >of the "temp_*" files (to hide them from the casual /tmp cruisers).
-
- Well...for starters if you drop the "%s" from the print command, Elm
- will stop creating temp files for printing and pipe the stuff right
- into the print command. That's one less temp file you need to
- worry about.
-
- Please note that you will need an Elm2.4 of fairly recent vintage to
- do this. The earlier versions of Elm2.4 and previous releases insisted
- on the `cat %s' portion.
-
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