Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man mailp

User Commands                                            mailp(1)



NAME
     mailp, digestp, filep, newsp, filofaxp, franklinp, timemanp,
     timesysp - frontends to the mp Text to PDL (Printer Descrip-
     tion Language) pretty print filter

SYNOPSIS
     mailp [options] filename...


     newsp [options] filename...


     digestp [options] filename...


     filep [options] filename...


     filofaxp [options] filename...


     franklinp [options] filename...


     timemanp [options] filename...


     timesysp [options] filename...


DESCRIPTION
     The mailp utility is a frontend to  the  mp(1)  program.  It
     uses different names to provide various mp options:

     mailp        Prints out mail messages.


     newsp        Prints out USENET news articles.


     digestp      Prints out USENET digest files.


     filep        Prints out ordinary ASCII files.


     filofaxp     Prints out in Filofax personal  organiser  for-
                  mat.


     franklinp    Prints  out  in   Franklin   Planner   personal
                  organiser format.



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User Commands                                            mailp(1)



     timemanp     Prints out in Time Manager  personal  organiser
                  format.


     timesysp     Prints out in  Time/System  International  per-
                  sonal organiser format.



     mailp and the associated  programs  read  each  filename  in
     sequence  and generate a prettified version of the contents.
     If no filename arguments are provided, mailp reads the stan-
     dard input.


     mailp works in two ways. With the -D option, it will work as
     an  X  print  server client to produce the PDL of the target
     printer and spool it. With the -d or -P option, it will gen-
     erate and spool PostScript output.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -d printer    Sends output to the named printer.  Otherwise,
                   sends  output  to  the  printer  named  in the
                   PRINTER environment variable.


     -D            Generates the PDL for the target  printer  and
                   spools it to the printer.


     -F            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.


     -h            Banner  printing  is  disabled.  Most  of  the
                   information  that  typically  appears  on  the
                   banner sheet is output in the mp banners.


     -l            Formats output in landscape mode. Two pages of
                   text will be printed per sheet of paper.


     -P printer    Same as -d option.


     -s subject    Uses subject as the new subject for the  prin-
                   tout. If you are printing ordinary ASCII files



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User Commands                                            mailp(1)



                   which have been specified on the command line,
                   the  subject  will default to the name of each
                   of these files.


OPERANDS
     The following operand is supported:

     filename     The name of the file to be read.


ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     If none of the -d, -D, or -P options is used, mailp uses the
     PRINTER  environment  variable  to  determine the printer to
     which the output from  the  mp(1)program  is  sent.  If  the
     PRINTER  variable  is  not found, the default destination is
     the PostScript printer.

EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0     Successful completion.


     1     An error occurred.


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | print/mp                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     mp(1), attributes(5)

NOTES
     The -P option, which spools the PDL directly to  the  target
     printer  in mp(1), produces PostScript when used in mailp so
     as to be backward compatible.








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