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- From: jose@ghia.rhein-main.de (Jose Camillo de Magalhaes)
- Subject: Re: Neat Waffle trick
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:57:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.135751.22741@ghia.rhein-main.de>
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- morpheus <morpheus@entropy.mcds.com> writes:
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- > tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
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- > > I wanted to print something from mail in my mail box. Instead of w filename
- > > and in dos doing a copy filename prn, i did W PRN while reading mail.
- > >
- > > Low and behold it printed.
-
- > Yeah, it's cool. And luckily, it seems to allow it only for priv9 users,
- > or possibly only for console logins...
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- > > I'm curious if this will work with LPT1, COM2 etc. etc. :)
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- > Works with lpt1 and com2 here (both printers)..
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- That is all very primitiv. Nice would be if Tom would aloud an external
- command to print mails. So we could include marging-set, heading, etc
- like can be done with a shell pipe command (unix) like this:
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- print = /bin/pr -h "ELETRONIC MAIL PRINTOUT" -o10 -l72 %s \
- | /usr/bin/lp -dprinter
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- With DOS, similar solution would also be possible.
-
- Regards
- jose
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