James Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you are doing this just for yourself, and you know you have a
> printer that will really print just the plain text when you send it
> plain text (like a dot matrix printer from the early 90s) then you can
> probably open the printer device and send it text. Under windows you
> can try opening LPT1 or on unix it's probably /dev/lpr or something
> like that.
Under Unix, you shouldn't be able to open the line printer, whether
it's /dev/lpr or /dev/lpt0 or whater. You shouldn't have
permission.
Instead, as was suggested earlier, use the "lpr" command and send it
the text/data on standard input. Any reasonably managed Unix system
should be able to handle a fair range of graphics formats, though
postscript is preferred.
<mike
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