Re: improved printing of WWW files

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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 11:52:33 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9211051052.AA02662@www3.cern.ch>
To: Jim Davis <davis@dri.cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: improved printing of WWW files
Cc: wei@xcf.berkeley.edu, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

>  Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 16:48:34 -0500
>  From: Jim Davis <davis@dri.cornell.edu>
>  

>  If you can't quite manage to live without hardcopy, you may
>  wish sometimes to print WWW files.  I have written a couple
>  of scripts to do this.  They are particularly useful with
>  Pei Wei's excellent Viola WWW browser.
>  

>  A tar archive is available for anonymous FTP:
>  

>  dri.cornell.edu/pub/davis/print-www.tar

Also now available as info.cern.ch/pub/www/src/print-www.tar

> ...  

>  The hardest part was writing the perl script to obtain documents
>  via http protocol - turns out you cant just run pipes through telnet.
>
Why not use "www -source" ?

You say, in print-www, that:

# It is intended to
# be used from the Viola WWW browser but might he useful
# elsewhere too

Of course it's great from the line mode browser too, in which you can say

	source | print-www

or just
        setenv WWW_PRINT_COMMAND "print-www '%s' | lpr"

beforehand, and say PRINT in www.
 

Thanks for a cleaning up the .sed file, and doing the thing properly.