Printing BSD mail messages to lpr.

Mark A. Heilpern heilpern at ibd.BRL.MIL
Wed Apr 5 22:30:07 AEST 1989


In article <471 at agrigene.UUCP> overby at agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes:
>How does one print, from within mail, a message to lpr?  I know one can save
> the message to a file and then print, but I want to print it directly.

>Scott Overby
>Agrigenetics
>Madison, WI

I believe there is an 'l' command which prompts for a filename, and you
may pipe that filename to a command. Try typeing 'man msg' if this does
not work for you. (Provided, of course, that msg is your mail reader :)
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