Re: bash question.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:49:25 +0200 (EET) "Petrov M.I." <petrov@mao.kiev.ua> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> > How do you _read_ from the printer, which is an output device?
> > Are you trying to get status info back from the printer?
> Yes. I want to get status info. When I do `echo -e "..."' then
> `cat /dev/lp0' from command line, this work correctly. When I do
> from script this do not work.
I wonder if that is because it's in a sub-process?
> > You'd need something more low-level than bash for that.
I'd think C...
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