Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question,
Unless you are trying to make a Debian package of your port (and then you should really know such things in advance), it'd quite badly incorrect. Debian-devel is for discussions of the development *of* Debian, not general questions about devalopment *on* a Debian system. > I am trying to port an old MS-DOS program and I have run into a stumbling > block. The Mess Dos program wrote directly to the printer. I can't seem > to find much information on how to print from a program in Linux. You pipe your data into an instance of "lpr". It is customary to give the user a chance to specify command-line arguments to "lpr", or a different program, for example to specify which printer to print to. Giving the option of printing to a file instead is also usually expected. While it will usually work to pipe controlescape sequences for the printer model in question to directly to the print spooler, the de-facto standard if you want to print something more complicated than tty text is to produce postscript. > or the correct mailing list to ask this question? The closest Debian list is probably debian-user. But since your question is not really Debian specific, a better choice might be newsgroups such as comp.unix.programmer (or a local unix user group, or another smaller but general forum). -- Henning Makholm "Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit."
