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How to print from Pine on the WAM system

This is a many-layered question, depending upon how you are connected to WAM.

By default, Pine is set to print to the device called attached-to-ansi, which (in English) means the printer attached to your local system's printer port. Most people using Pine are fine with the default setup, because they use it from a WAM lab PC or Mac (where the printers are pre-defined), or from a system where they have a local printer (home, office) directly plugged in or accessible over the local network.

WAM Lab PCs and Macs

In the WAM labs, each physical room has its own dedicated printer, so if you're in the Mac lab in 3332 CSS, the file will print there; if you're on a PC in PG2, the file will print there. However, this applies only to the PCs and Macs, not the Suns.

There is a list of available WAM printers and their locations. All are HP Postscript laser printers unless otherwise stated.

WAM Suns or remote PCs and Macs with no printer

Unfortunately, because Pine controls the print mechanism, it won't relinquish control to the Pay4Print (LPCR) software on the Unix systems. Because of the underlying way the systems are configured, printing from Pine will only work on the WAM PCs and Macs. (If you configure your printer to qpr -q csc , for example, you'll get prompted for your LPCR account number, and then your session will hang and will have to be aborted.)

So if you want to print when you're logged into the WAM system remotely via telnet and you don't have a local printer, or if you're using a Sun in one of the open labs, you need to use E (Export) to save the mail item to a file. Then, outside of Pine, you can use the qpr command to print the file: qpr -q printer-name filename

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