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Re: [open-cobol-list] Addressing printer in report writer program.
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Kevin Monceaux |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Addressing printer in report writer program. |
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Fri, 7 Mar 2014 20:25:22 -0600 |
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:09:59PM -0500, john Culleton wrote:
> On a Linux system is there a way to send report writer output directly to
> the printer?
One could write the output directly to /dev/lp0, or whatever device node is
associated with the printer, but it would be better to send output through
the print spooling system instead of writing to the printer directly.
> Or do I just send it to a Line-sequential file and print it off-line?
I haven't tried the report writer yet myself. Writing to a file then
printing the file via lpr would be safer than sending the output directly to
the printer. But, if the printer is off-line it won't print. It would need
to be on-line before it would print anything. :-) Or, if a report writer
program can write the output to stdout the program output could be piped to
lpr to print.
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