In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?
FILE *fp;
fp = popen("lpr", "w");
fprintf(fp, "Hello world\n");
pclose(fp);
See the manual page for popen()
Mike.
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