ARCHIVED: In Elm, how can I print messages to my local printer like Pine can?

Note: Elm is not available on any UITS systems.

There is a utility called ansiprt that you can use in a pipe to print to your local printer. It wraps its input with the ANSI media-copy escape codes and returns it, trusting your terminal to behave correctly. To get Pine's behavior in Elm, you can configure Elm's "P)rint mail using" print option as:

Note: To print to your local printer in Pine, you need to define it in the entry "printer=attached-to-ansi" in the Setup menu or your .pinerc file.

If you are unable to find the ansiprt program on your Unix host, you can create a copy by the method described in In Unix, how do I print a file to my local printer? To point Elm to your copy of ansiprt, from Elm, press  o  for the options menu, and then  p  to change Elm's print command. Enter the following line for the print command: ~/bin/ansiprt Type  >  to save the change, and then  i  to return to the index.

At Indiana University, for personal or departmental Linux or Unix systems support, see At IU, how do I get support for Linux or Unix?

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