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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:51 -0500
To: Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke AT octa4 DOT net DOT au>,
   fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Printing locally
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At 07:24 PM 3/3/2002, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -0000, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote:
> > What about this? Any good?
> > If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try
> >     cp a.txt prn
> > OR
> >     cat a.txt > prn
> > and if a.txt is Unix-terminated, try
> >     cat a.txt | unix2dos > prn
> > Fergus
>
>This was a good suggestion but it still does not work. It just does
>nothing as does directing the output to PRINT or LPT1.
>
>The file a.txt if put into Notepad either in dos or unix format prints
>fine.


Hm, then there must be some issue locally.  I have used both 

cat file.txt > prn

and

cat file.txt > //<machine name>/<printer share name>

with no problems in the past.  If one or both of these don't work for you,
you may be stuck trying to debug it.  In anticipation of your next question,
you might try running one or both of these with 'strace'.  See strace --help
for more details of the options.  The output may give you an idea of where 
things are going wrong for you.



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