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VMS Mail - Can I Affix Username to PRINT Job?

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From: Yosef Branse
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:35
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[Note - I made a clumsy error posting this earlier. My apologies if it turns up
more than once.]

We are using VMS MAIL (VMS 5.5-2 on a VAX 6320).

Several users send their MAIL messages, with the PRINT command, to the same
printer. If they don't collect them within a day or two, it is not always
possible to know who originated the print job - for instance, if the message
comes from a mailing list, or was sent to more than one person.

Is there a way of instructing PRINT to include brief user information at the
top of each printed message - analogous to the /HEADER qualifier of the DCL
PRINT command? All I need is the username, but date and time would be useful
too.

I tried PRINT/FLAG and PRINT/BURST, but it seems ridiculous to generate a
superfluous page of gobbbledygook when a single line of information would do.

Any ideas? (I KNOW that I could probably get away with just discarding print
jobs that accumulate after a day or two, but I'd like to give my coworkers the
benefit of the doubt.)

Thanks in advance,

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* Yosef (Jody) Branse             University of Haifa Library              *
*                                 Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel          *
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