Re: "vtprint" doesn't work with Mutt when inside Screen

2006-09-08 Thread Henry Nelson
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:53:33AM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > According to the vtprint man page, it uses terminal escape sequences to > activate the printer. When screen is running, it inserts a layer in > between the program and your terminal program, which is what allows > screen to perform

Re: "vtprint" doesn't work with Mutt when inside Screen

2006-09-08 Thread Brian Mathis
According to the vtprint man page, it uses terminal escape sequences to activate the printer. When screen is running, it inserts a layer in between the program and your terminal program, which is what allows screen to perform its magic, and will also catch those sequences and prevent vtprint f

Re: "vtprint" doesn't work with Mutt when inside Screen

2006-09-08 Thread Joe Zbiciak
Henry,I am not familiar with vtprint, but these sorts of problems sound like typical environment variable issues.  If your vtprint environment gets set up in your .profile/.login or equivalent (you don't state what shell you use), but is not exported, then this can happen.  From a quick Google sear

"vtprint" doesn't work with Mutt when inside Screen

2006-09-08 Thread Henry Nelson
I use PuTTY to login to a shell account for reading/sending mail. >From the shell without running Screen, I can print from Mutt using "vtprint" (prints out on printer attached to local terminal). When I evoke Mutt from a Screen session, nothing is sent to the printer, even though I get a message o