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to: Chris Maddock
from: Matt Mc_Carthy
date: 1998-01-02 12:09:24
subject: printing

In a message of , Chris Maddock (3:640/302) writes:

Happy New Year Chris!

 CM>On 30 Dec at 19:57, Jack Raats of 2:285/751 wrote to Mike Christian:

 >>>> Alt-W, then type in PRN. It has worked that way for generations 
 >>>> around here.
 
 >>> Oops, I always tried >PRN
 
 JR> I've just tried it, but it doesn't print the message header! (or 
 JR> am I doing something wrong?)

 CM>Yep. You need to put it as thus ...

 CM>PRN,t

 CM>The ",t" tells it to include the header. This is also true
for saving 
 CM>to a file.

That's what I like about the hodgepodge of 'upgrades' we've had over the years!

Looks like a 'bug' slipped in and caused a 'reversal' of the function.  My
docs for this ancient version clearly state that the ",t" means
save (or print) _text_ only, without header information.  

The way your version works, that should have been changed to ",h"
for 'header' information.  Seems illogical to use a 't' to mean 'header',
and _no_ 't' to mean 'text only'.      :-)

      Good luck...  M.

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