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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:12:05 -0500
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Subject: Re: lpr for djgpp?
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"Markus R. Keßler" wrote:
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
... snip ...
>
>> Of course there is.  Just type "cat file | sort | lpr", where you
>> have written lpr to take input from stdin and deliver it to the
>> printer.`
> 
> That's it! It should be a liitle program that behaves like lpr to
> just print pages in text mode. No matter if the printer is
> connected via network or directly.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
   int ch;

   while (EOF != (ch = getc(stdin))) putc(ch, stdout);
   return 0;
}

should do it.  Exercise it by setting stdout to point to the
printer.  Something like "lpr > LPT".

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