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NAME
     mp - POSTSCRIPT pretty printer

SYNOPSIS
     mp [-A4] [-C] [-F] [-PS] [-US] [-a] [-d] [-e] [-ff] [-fp]
     [-l] [-m] [-o] [-p prologue] [-s subject] [-tm] [-ts] [-v]
     [-?] [filename...]

DESCRIPTION
     The mp program reads each filename in sequence and generates
     a prettified version of the contents in POSTSCRIPT format,
     sent to standard output.  If no filename argument is pro-
     vided, mp reads the standard input.  If the standard input
     is a terminal, input is terminated by an EOF signal, usually
     Ctrl-D.

     Mail items, news articles, ordinary ASCII files, complete
     mail folders, and digests are all acceptable input formats
     for mp.  The output format includes grayscale lozenges con-
     taining banner information at the top and bottom of every
     page.

     The program is conveniently used in conjunction with the
     print button of the SunView/xnews(1) mailtool(1) programs,
     or the pipe command provided by mail(1).  Add the following
     two lines to your .mailrc file:
	       set printmail='mp | lpr'
	       set cmd="mp | lpr &"

     Source the .mailrc file, and you are ready to use mp.  For
     printing ordinary ASCII files, the following alias (to be
     placed in your .cshrc file) may also prove useful:
	       alias print 'mp -o -s "\!*" <\!* | lpr'

OPTIONS
     -A4  Use A4 paper size (8.5 x 11.4 inches).

     -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.

     -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.

     -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


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	  PostScript to be printed as text.

     -US  Use US paper size (8.5 x 11 inches).

     -a   Format the file as a news article.  The top banner con-
	  tains the text: "Article from newsgroup ", where news-
	  group is the first news group found on the Newsgroups:
	  line.

     -d   Format the file as a digest.

     -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.

     -ff  Format the file for use with a Filofax personal
	  organiser.

     -fp  Format the file for use with a Franklin Planner per-
	  sonal organiser.

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

     -m   Format the file as a mail folder, printing multiple
	  messages.

     -o   Format the file as an ordinary ASCII file.

     -p prologue
	  Employ the file prologue as the POSTSCRIPT prologue
	  file, overriding any previously defined file names.

     -s subject
	  Use  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.

     -tm  Format the file for use with the Time Manager personal
	  organiser.

     -ts  format the file for use with the Time/System Interna-
	  tional personal organiser.

     -v   Print the version number of this release of mp.

     -?   Print the usage line for mp (note that the ? character
	  must be escaped if using csh(1)).


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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     The mp prologue file is determined by first looking for the
     environment variable MP_PROLOGUE, which specifies the direc-
     tory where mp prologue files are to be found.  If
     MP_PROLOGUE is not found, then the default directory is
     assumed (/usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.ps).

SUPPLIED PROLOGUE FILES
     The following prologue files are provided:

	  mp.pro.ps
	       Used by default

	  mp.pro.l.ps
	       Used by the -l landscape mode option

	  mp.pro.ff.ps
	       Used if the -ff option is in effect

	  mp.pro.fp.ps
	       Used if the -fp option is in effect

	  mp.pro.tm.ps
	       Used if the -tm option is in effect

	  mp.pro.ts.ps
	       Used if the -ts option is in effect

	  mp.pro.alt.ps
	       An alternative modification of the default prolo-
	       gue file which outputs the page number in the
	       right corner of the bottom banner.

	  mp.pro.altl.ps
	       An alternative landscape option mode prologue
	       file.

FILES
     .cshrc
	  initialization file for csh(1)

     .mailrc
	  initialization file for mail(1)

     /usr/local/mp
	  executable

     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.ps
	  POSTSCRIPT prologue for mail printing

     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.l.ps
	  POSTSCRIPT prologue for landscape format


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     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.alt.ps
	  alternative "default" POSTSCRIPT prologue, inserts page
	  numbers in the bottom right corner of each page

     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.altl.ps
	  alternative "landscape" POSTSCRIPT prologue.

     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.ff.ps
	  POSTSCRIPT prologue for Filofax format

     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.fp.ps
	  POSTSCRIPT prologue for Franklin Planner format.

     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.tm.ps
	  POSTSCRIPT prologue for Time Manager format

     /usr/local/lib/mp/mp.pro.ts.ps
	  POSTSCRIPT prologue for Time/System International for-
	  mat.

SEE ALSO
     mail(1), mailtool(1), xnews(1)

AUTHORS
     Original version by Steve Holden.

     Converted to C, modified and maintained by Rich Burridge,
     Sun Microsystems, Australia.

     Original modified to handle net news articles and MH mail by
     Bruno Pillard, Chorus Systemes, France.

     Handling of mail digests added by Dave Glowacki of Public
     Works Computer Services, St Paul, MN.

     Manual page revised by Rick Rodgers, UCSF School of Phar-
     macy, San Francicso.

     Support for Personal Organiser printing style added by Doug-
     las Buchanan, Sun Microsystems Europe.

     Substantial modifications to header parsing by Jeremy
     Webber, Computer Science Department, University of Adelaide,
     Australia.

     Support for printing multiple files and subject line
     filename print for ordinary ASCII files added by Sam
     Manoharan, Edinburgh University.

     Support for landscape mode written by Michael Tuchiarone.


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     Revision of the POSTSCRIPT structuring and the way that the
     prologue files are handled was included by Johan Vromans.

     New style POSTSCRIPT prologue files by John Macdonald.

     Support for the ISO8859 character set by Bertrand DeCouty.

     Rich Burridge.  PHONE: +61 2 413 2666  MAIL: richb@Aus.Sun.COM


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