RE: printing

["Orn E. Hansen" <oe.hansen@oehansen.pp.se>]

Þann 15-Jan-98 skrifar tko@westgac3.dragon.com:
> 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?
> 
  Put the ordered file into a temporary one, and execl 'lpr' on that file,
removing it when 'lpr' is done... or open a pipe to 'lpr'.

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Orn Einar Hansen                         oe.hansen@oehansen.pp.se
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