topic Re: adding a printer that does a cat in Operating System - HP-UX

adding a printer that does a cat

Osiris Guzman — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:46:09 GMT

How would you add a spool printer that executes a cat command?

Re: adding a printer that does a cat

John Bolene — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:29:47 GMT

I don't understand the question.

Printers print streams of data that are sent to them.

A process can do the cat and send it to the printer.

Otherwise, there are other ways of skinning a cat, but more information is needed.

Re: adding a printer that does a cat

Jesper Sivertsen — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:36:42 GMT

Hi there
Add a printer using sam og lpadmin to the device /dev/null and the printer type "dumb".
After this you can change the interface-script in /etc/lp/interface/. In this script there is a cat command that you can modyfy to you use.
Good luck
Jesper

Re: adding a printer that does a cat

Larry Basford — Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:08:09 GMT

lpshut
lpadmin -pprintername -v/dev/pts/td -mdumb
lpsched

I did a tty to find my port then chmod 777 /dev/ttytd

print jobs print to my screen.

Maybe this will help. Not sure what you want.