SERAFINI%RAL@AMES-IO.ARPA.UUCP (04/04/87)
To Alan and Denis, and other concerned info-vaxers
About VMS Mail inadequacies:
I get banner pages on mail messages printed to sys$print by default. I
don't know how you've set up your printer to disable this feature. On
logical, non-generic queues, you do have to do a little extra to get
banner pages. Here's how we initialize our printers, maybe it will help.
$! define the line printer (LP27) queue and assign Sys$Print to it
$ set printer /lowercase lpb0:
$ init /queue /start /generic Sys$Print
$ init /queue/ start/ default=(flag,burst) lpb0
$ assign/queue lpb0 Sys$Print
$!
$! define the laser printer (QMS 1200) and assign its queue
$ set printer /lowercase/page=0/width=300/printall LPE0:
$ init/queue/start/default=(flag,noburst,trailer=one) -
/noenable_generic/separate=(reset:qmsreset) LPE0
$ set queue/prot=w:rw lpe0
$ initialize /queue laser
$ assign /queue lpe0 laser
$ start /queue laser
$ set queue/prot=w:rw laser
$! Allow mail printed on laser queue to have header and trailer pages
$! NOTE: this has to be done after the queue has been started <dbs> dec86
$ set queue /default=(trailer=one,flag=all,noburst) laser
$!
Second, as far as being able to print to other printers, the VMS Mail print
command accepts >pr/que=queue-name
and the print symbiont will put banners on this output, becuase it does for
us.
I agree with Denis that a MAIL$PRINT logical would be nice, since I don't
like getting my messages on the lineprinter, but always typing pr/que is
another thing that I forget sometimes. I've heard rumors that VMS Mail
is being rewritten - maybe it will get better soon.
<dbs>
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David B. Serafini
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