NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | OPERANDS | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | EXIT STATUS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO
The mailp utility is a frontend to the mp(1) Postscript pretty printer program. It uses different names to provide various mp options:
Prints out mail messages.
Prints out USENET news articles.
Prints out USENET digest files.
Prints out ordinary ASCII files.
Prints out in Filofax personal organiser format.
Prints out in Franklin Planner personal organiser format.
Prints out in Time Manager personal organiser format.
Prints out in Time/System International personal organiser format.
mailp and the associated programs read each filename in sequence and generate a prettified version of the contents in PostScript format. If no filename arguments are provided, mailp reads the standard input.
The following options are supported:
Sends output to the named printer. Otherwise, sends output to the printer named in the PRINTER environment variable,
Instead of printing who the mail article is for, the top header will contain who the mail article is from. This is a useful option for people with their own personal printer.
Banner printing is disabled. Most of the information that typically appears on the banner sheet is output in the mp banners.
Formats output in landscape mode. Two pages of text will be printed per sheet of paper.
Sends output to the named printer. Otherwise, sends output to the printer named in the PRINTER environment variable.
Uses subject as the new subject for the printout. If you are printing ordinary ASCII files which have been specified on the command line, the subject will default to the name of each of these files.
mailp uses the PRINTER environment variable to determine the printer to which the output from the mp(1) program is sent. If this environment variable is not found, then it defaults to the ps printer.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Availability | SUNWmp |
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | OPERANDS | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | EXIT STATUS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO