[PLUG] Printing from Pine

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Sun Oct 10 16:39:02 UTC 2004


On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 04:33:17PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   For years the printers were directly connected to the server and printing
> from pine invoked enscript so that the messages were nicely formatted. Now
> the printers are nodes on the network and pine apparently cannot find them.
> I changed the default (Setup -> Printers) on the last line to 'lpr -P
> laser5_duplex' and was able to print a message, but unformatted.
> 
>   /etc/printcap has the latest definitions from /etc/cups/printers.conf. But
> I must need a different invocation of enscript now and I don't have a clue
> where to make that change (nor what change to make) in the pine printer
> setup.

Well, the default printer is called (or aliased) 'lp'.  If you don't
have a printer called that, you prolly can't print from Pine.
You may just have to prepend 'lp|' to the beginning of a printcap entry.




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