Re: printing

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] m0xspAr-0007zaC@westgac3.dragon.com>,
 <tko@westgac3.dragon.com> wrote:
>Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
>text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
>directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
>appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that?

  FILE *fp;

  fp = popen("lpr", "w");

  fprintf(fp, "Hello world\n");

  pclose(fp);

See the manual page for popen()

Mike.
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