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Re: adding a printer that does a cat

 
Osiris Guzman
Occasional Contributor

‎03-27-2001 09:46 AM

‎03-27-2001 09:46 AM

adding a printer that does a cat

How would you add a spool printer that executes a cat command?
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John Bolene
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‎03-27-2001 10:29 AM

‎03-27-2001 10:29 AM

Re: adding a printer that does a cat

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.
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Jesper Sivertsen
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‎03-27-2001 10:36 AM

‎03-27-2001 10:36 AM

Re: adding a printer that does a cat

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
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Larry Basford
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‎03-28-2001 06:08 AM

‎03-28-2001 06:08 AM

Re: adding a printer that does a cat

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.
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