RE: Printing to a Windows receipt printer from a perl script

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas McNeely
Phil, if you still need a solution to this problem, and to the extent that you're mainly stuck on getting output from Perl to appear on the printer, this is another possible solution: DOSPrint, a tiny, free (as in beer) utility that assigns an LPT port to any Windows printer (USB, networked, et

RE: Wide character

2006-08-28 Thread Thomas McNeely
It didn't do this to me when I ran it. I'm only guessing, but it kinda sounds like it gagged on a unicode character, maybe. Are you using Perl 5.8.x? I think unicode support was only introduced in Perl 5.6 and considerably improved in 5.8. Maybe also check for the latest version of MARC::Record. Go