'C' access to the lp spooling stuff, any ideas

[Jon Brawn]

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.

Tart it up a bit by setting absolute pathnames and IFS though!
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