Could you tell me the steps to take if I wanted to print out an individual
response out of a conference?
Thanks

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It depends a lot on your own configuration & all that.  For example, I'm at
the moment using Procomm Plus for Windows, so to print a response I can read
the thing, highlight it with the mouse, and select to copy to printer.
Other environments allow different kinds of cut-&-paste operations.  If you're
running on a DOS box, you may be able to do it with print-screen.

A different type of option: from an Ok: prompt, you can enter something like:
read 262 since 10/16 pass >foo
and it will write out all responses beginning 10/16 to a file called foo.
(I *think* it appends to foo, not overwrites, but I try not to depend on
this.)  You can then edit the file and upload it and print it in any way
you choose.  Warning: if you do something like just copying it to a printer,
you may have to fix up the line terminators (assuming you used a binary
file transfer).  (There are many ways to do that.)

The Windows "cheater's" way: copy the respone to your computer, paste it
somewhere, and print later.

If your communications software is emulating VT100 (or some higher
VT), you may be able to use the pcprint command. This is a C program
that comes with the MS-DOS Kermit distribution and that I installed
on Grex a while back. (You don't need Kermit to use pcprint.) You
can use it from Picospan's "Ok:" prompt to send text that Picospan
displays to your printer. For example, I just printed out this item
by going to the "Ok:" prompt and entering the command

        read pass 262 | pcprint

You can also use pcprint to send files on Grex to your printer, e.g.

        pcprint foo.txt

entered from a shell prompt will send foo.txt to your printer.
  In order for all this to work, your communications software has
to support the "transparent print" feature of VT100, but most
decent communications programs do so--e.g. Procomm Plus for Windows
(which I'm using right now) or MS-Kermit.
  You don't even have to be using DOS or Windows. Any full-featured
VT100 emulator for any platform (e.g. Macintosh) should also work
with pcprint.
  Using pcprint to print out individual responses from the "Respond
or pass" prompt is more complex, but it can be done. To print
response #103 of the current item, the following may work:

        define pager pcprint ; only 103 ; define pager more

This has the effect of temporarily diverting Picospan's output from
the screen to the pcprint program, then switching it back. If you
use the "less" pager, you'd end the command with "less" instead of
"more".

Hey, it worked!  I typed "read pass 262 | pcprint"
What modification would I have to make if I wanted to print just response #3
of item 262?  I will try a few trial and errors and if I get lucky, I'll post
the command.

oops!  I think I'll quit experimenting - running out of paper!

I highlight and Print (or Save) Selection.

I haven't tried it, but you could probably type "only 262|pcprint" (without
the quotes) at the Respond or pass? prompt.

Nope, doesn't work.  Picospan doesn't support the pipe operation "|"
at the "Respond or pass" prompt.
  I thought I described a method of doing it at the end of my
response #3.

You can read at the Ok: prompt & use awk or something to filter out
what you don't want, then pipe what's left through pcprint.

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I *said* "from the Ok: prompt".  My suggestion was to use John's
read pass item# | pcprint
with an added filter in the middle.  But John's other strategy
does work from the Respond-or-pass: prompt; I'd forgotten that.

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