help with printing

[Michael]

* Woodchuck <marmot at pennswoods.net> [2008-06-13 15:15:10 -0400]:

> > I can now print any text through lpr. 
> > 
> > In my .muttrc, I have:
> > set print_command="/usr/bin/lpr"
> > 
> > The printer will print the top two lines of email (From & To) and then spit the page out. 
> 
> Phew.  This sounds like mutt is doing something wrong.  I don't use it,
> so can't offer anything substantive.
> 

Well, I wrote too soon :(
I rebooted to see how everything worked/behaved, and it wasn't quite so nice. I can only get 2 lines
of a text file and they are stair-stepped.
Mutt prints the same thing: 2 lines, stair-stepped.

> I am not optimistic that messing with lpr or lprng, which chiefly handle
> queuing, doing precious little for text, will solve the mutt problem.
> Can you get mutt to print to a file?  maybe try
> 	set print_command="/usr/bin/cat >/tmp/printtest"
> 
> and examine what mutt puts out.
> 

I may be able to work on it tomorrow, but with anniversary and Fathers Day, it may not be till next week ;)
I'll post what I get whenever I get back to working on it and on that machine.
Right now, I'm testing a couple of things on my FreeBSD machine (350mhz).
Thanks for all the help

Mike

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