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This is a many-layered question, depending upon how you are
connected to the TerpConnect system.
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 OIT Computer 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.
In the OIT Computer 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 Linux machines.
There is a list of OIT Computer Labs
and their locations.
All OIT Computer Labs have HP Postscript laser printers unless
otherwise stated.
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 OIT
Computer Lab PCs and Macs. (If you configure your printer
to qpr -q pg2 , 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 TerpConnect
system remotely via telnet and you don't have a local
printer, or if you're using a Linux host 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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