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Path: watmath!egisin
From: egisin@watmath.UUCP (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Re: Flag pages out of mail prints
Message-ID: <6704@watmath.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 87 15:38:36 GMT
References: <8704031113.AA23264@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <8704031113.AA23264@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, ALAN@FANDM.BITNET (Alan Sutter, Computer Services, Franklin & Ma...) writes:

#         When you do a PRINT in VMS mail, it sends the current message
# you are looking at out to the printer.  What it doen't do is put a flag
# page on the front of it, even if the print queue is set up for
# DEFAULT=FLAG.  Is there anyway to fix it so that I get a flag page?
You can set up print queues with job separation pages instead of
file flag pages. (init /queue /separate=flag ...)
Job separation pages always come out.
Another thing you can do on job separation pages is specify
any job name, which is useful for remote jobs from non-vms systems.

# and then redifines PRINT to send output to that print queue.  The
# problem is that MAIL doesn't seem to honor this symbol definition, which
# isn't too suprising.  What does MAIL use to initiate the print, and is
# there any good way to get a hook in there to do a redirection to some
# queue other than SYS$PRINT?
I define SYS$PRINT as a system logical in systartup.com.
(for example, $ Define /system sys$print LP27, where LP27 is a printer queue)
The user can redefine sys$print to whatever they want..