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echo: telemate
to: BENJAMIN NG
from: JOHN MCLACHLAN
date: 1996-05-25 17:32:00
subject: TM/DOS - Log to PRN Bug?

 On 05-20-96 Benjamin Ng wrote to All... 
 
 BN> Hello... is ANYBODY out there?  Once upon a time, this echo was 
 BN> fairly active (20+ msg/day).  Oh well... 
 G'day Benjamin, 
  At least you, I and Michael Scott are in here. 
 BN> 
 BN> Has Telemate's "Log-to-printer" function EVER worked? 
 BN> 
 BN> It is supposedly toggled on/off by either pressing Ctrl-PrScr or 
 BN> using ANSI codes (esc[5i and esc[4i respectively).  When I try 
 BN> to use it, the status bar at the bottom of my screen indeed 
 BN> shows that the function is active (PRN shows up where the SLK 
 BN> appears when toggled on, or S&P if both are active).  However, 
 BN> it doesn't print to the printer. 
 BN> 
I had never had occasion to use this function, but was SO excited :-) 
to see some mail that I shelled out and tried logging on to a BBS then 
hitting Ctrl PrScreen. It worked fine, I ended up with pages of my 
transactions on that call. Running 4.21 here. 
Good talking to you 
 
          |\_/| 
          | c |  John McLachlan 
        +-+   +--    Brisbane, Qld, Australia 
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