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.TH MP 1 "17 February 1992"
.ds Ps P\s-2OST\s+2S\s-2CRIPT\s+2
.SH NAME
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mp \- POSTSCRIPT pretty printer
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mp
.RB [ \-A4 ]
.RB [ \-C ]
.RB [ \-F ]
.RB [ \-PS ]
.RB [ \-US ]
.RB [ \-a ]
.RB [ \-d ]
.RB [ \-e ]
.RB [ \-ff ]
.RB [ \-fp ]
.RB [ \-l ]
.RB [ \-m ]
.RB [ \-o ]
.RB [ \-p
.IR prologue ]
.RB [ \-s
.IR subject ]
.RB [ \-tm ]
.RB [ \-ts ]
.RB [ \-v ]
.RB [ \-? ]
.RI [ filename .\|.\|.]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I mp
program reads each
.I filename
in sequence and generates a prettified version of the contents in
\*(Ps format, sent to standard output.
If no filename argument is provided,
.I mp
reads the standard input.
If the standard input is a terminal, input is terminated by an
.SM EOF
signal, usually
.SM Ctrl-D\s0.
.PP
Mail items, news articles, ordinary ASCII files, complete mail folders,
and digests are all acceptable input formats for
.IR mp .
The output format includes grayscale lozenges containing banner information
at the top and bottom of every page.
.PP
The program is conveniently used in conjunction with the print button of the
.RI SunView/ xnews (1)
.IR mailtool (1)
programs, or the
.I pipe
command provided by
.IR mail (1).
Add the following two lines to your
.I .mailrc
file:
.br
.in +1.0i
.nf
\fLset printmail='mp | lpr'
set cmd="mp | lpr &"\fP
.fi
.in -1.0i
.PP
Source the
.I .mailrc
file, and you are ready to use
.IR mp .
For printing ordinary ASCII files, the following alias (to be placed in your
.I .cshrc
file) may also prove useful:
.br
.in +1.0i
.nf
\fLalias print 'mp -o -s "\\!*" <\\!* | lpr'\fP
.fi
.in -1.0i
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-A4
Use A4 paper size (8.5 x 11.4 inches).
.TP
.B \-C
Instead of using "\\nFrom" to denote the start of new mail messages, mp will
look for (and use) the value of the Content-Length: mail header. If the
Content-Length doesn't take you to the next "\\nFrom", then it's wrong, and
mp falls back to looking for the next "\\nFrom" in the mail folder.
.TP
.B \-F
Instead of printing who the mail article is for, the top header will
contain who the mail article is from. A useful option for people with
their own personal printer.
.TP
.B \-PS
If the mail or digest message just has PostScript as the text of the message,
then this is normally just passed straight through. Specifying this option,
causes PostScript to be printed as text.
.TP
.B \-US
Use US paper size (8.5 x 11 inches).
.TP
.B \-a
Format the file as a news article.
The top banner contains the text:
"Article from
.I newsgroup
", where
.I newsgroup
is the first news group found on the Newsgroups: line.
.TP
.B \-d
Format the file as a digest.
.TP
.B \-e
Assume the ELM mail frontend intermediate file format. Used when printing
messages from within ELM (using the "p" command), especially for printing
tagged messages. This option must be specified in your ELM option setup.
.TP
.B \-ff
Format the file for use with a Filofax personal organiser.
.TP
.B \-fp
Format the file for use with a Franklin Planner personal organiser.
.TP
.B \-l
Format output in landscape mode.
Two pages of text will be printed per sheet of paper.
.TP
.B \-m
Format the file as a mail folder, printing multiple messages.
.TP
.B \-o
Format the file as an ordinary ASCII file.
.TP
.BI \-p " prologue"
Employ the file
.I prologue
as the \*(Ps prologue file,
overriding any previously defined file names.
.TP
.BI \-s " subject"
Use
.I " subject"
as the new subject for the printout. If you are printing ordinary ASCII
files which have been specified on the command line, the the subject will
default to the name of each of these files.
.TP
.B \-tm
Format the file for use with the Time Manager personal organiser.
.TP
.B \-ts
format the file for use with the Time/System International personal organiser.
.TP
.B \-v
Print the version number of this release of
.IR mp .
.TP
.B \-?
Print the usage line for
.I mp
(note that the
.B ?
character must be escaped if using
.IR csh (1)).
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
The
.I mp
prologue file is determined by first looking for the environment variable
.IR MP_PROLOGUE ,
which specifies the directory where
.I mp
prologue files are to be found.
If
.I MP_PROLOGUE
is not found, then the default directory is assumed
.RI ( LIBDIR/mp.pro.ps ).
.SH "SUPPLIED PROLOGUE FILES"
The following prologue files are provided:
.RS
.TP
.I mp.pro.ps
Used by default
.TP
.I mp.pro.l.ps
Used by the
.B \-l
landscape mode option
.TP
.I mp.pro.ff.ps
Used if the
.B \-ff
option is in effect
.TP
.I mp.pro.fp.ps
Used if the
.B \-fp
option is in effect
.TP
.I mp.pro.tm.ps
Used if the
.B \-tm
option is in effect
.TP
.I mp.pro.ts.ps
Used if the
.B \-ts
option is in effect
.TP
.I mp.pro.alt.ps
An alternative modification of the default prologue file which outputs the
page number in the right corner of the bottom banner.
.TP
.I mp.pro.altl.ps
An alternative landscape option mode prologue file.
.RE
.SH FILES
.TP
.I .cshrc
initialization file for
.IR csh (1)
.TP
.I .mailrc
initialization file for
.IR mail (1)
.TP
.I BINDIR/mp
executable
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.ps
\*(Ps prologue for mail printing
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.l.ps
\*(Ps prologue for landscape format
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.alt.ps
alternative "default" \*(Ps prologue, inserts page
numbers in the bottom right corner of each page
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.altl.ps
alternative "landscape" \*(Ps prologue.
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.ff.ps
\*(Ps prologue for Filofax format
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.fp.ps
\*(Ps prologue for Franklin Planner format.
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.tm.ps
\*(Ps prologue for Time Manager format
.TP
.I LIBDIR/mp.pro.ts.ps
\*(Ps prologue for Time/System International
format.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR mail (1),
.IR mailtool (1),
.IR xnews (1)
.SH AUTHORS
Original version by Steve Holden.
.PP
Converted to C, modified and maintained by Rich Burridge, Sun Microsystems,
Australia.
.PP
Original modified to handle net news articles and MH mail by Bruno Pillard, Chorus Systemes, France.
.PP
Handling of mail digests added by Dave Glowacki of Public Works Computer Services, St Paul, MN.
.PP
Manual page revised by Rick Rodgers, UCSF School of Pharmacy, San Francicso.
.PP
Support for Personal Organiser printing style added by Douglas Buchanan,
Sun Microsystems Europe.
.PP
Substantial modifications to header parsing by Jeremy Webber,
Computer Science Department, University of Adelaide, Australia.
.PP
Support for printing multiple files and subject line filename print for
ordinary ASCII files added by Sam Manoharan, Edinburgh University.
.PP
Support for landscape mode written by Michael Tuchiarone.
.PP
Revision of the \*(Ps structuring and the way that the prologue files
are handled was included by Johan Vromans.
.PP
New style \*(Ps prologue files by John Macdonald.
.PP
Support for the ISO8859 character set by Bertrand DeCouty.
.PP
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Rich Burridge.  PHONE: +61 2 413 2666  MAIL: richb@Aus.Sun.COM
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