'C' access to the lp spooling stuff, any ideas
Robert Claeson
prc at erbe.se
Fri Dec 14 20:57:02 AEST 1990
In article <13632 at chaph.usc.edu>, jeenglis at alcor.usc.edu (Joe English Muffin) writes:
|> wdh at holos0.uucp (Weaver Hickerson) writes:
|> >I'd like to be able to queue files by writing into the lp fifos, tables,
|> >and whatever other magic is involved. Does anybody know of the format,
|> >rules, caveats, etc for this type of thing.
|> popen("lpr","w");
|>
|> is by far your best bet.
Ahem, the question was regarding the System V "lp" spooler. For it, the
following should be done instead:
popen("lp -s", "w");
In other words, not much of a difference.
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