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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:22:11 +0200
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be>
Organization: Falcon Software NV
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Linux lpr under DJGPP?
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> Works but with 3 drawbacks:
>  1. does not close the window at end (I mut type "quit")
>  2. does not accept wild chars (to proceed several files) as does "lpr"
>  3. does not accept gzipped files as does "lpr".
> 
> This means that I should write a small program in C/DJGPP or F77/DJGPP
> to handle a number of files and gunzip them it suffix .gz is present.
> But perhaps somebody did it already...

Note: this is just off the top of my head and is therefore not
guaranteed to work as expected. No warranty/Caveat emptor/etc etc

*** not-lpr.sh starts here
#! /bin/sh

ps_to_printer="gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=ljet4 -r600x600
-sOutputFile=LPT1"

: ${TMPDIR=/tmp}
tmpfile="$TPMDIR/not-lpr.ps"

test -n "$@" || exit 0

force=
if test "$1" = "-f"; then
  force=yes
  shift
fi

for PSFILE in $@; do
  case $PSFILE in
    *.ps.gz)
      gzcat $PSFILE >$tmpfile
      $ps_to_printer $tmpfile
      rm -f $tmpfile
      ;;
    *.ps.bz2)
      bzcat $PSFILE >$tmpfile
      $ps_to_printer $tmpfile
      rm -f $tmpfile
      ;;
    *.ps)
      $ps_to_printer $PSFILE
      ;;
    *)
      if test "$force" = "yes"; then
        $ps_to_printer $PSFILE
      else
        echo "Skipping $PSFILE because it doesn't have a recognized
extension"
        echo "Use '-f' as first argument to process this file anyway"
      fi
      ;;
done
**** end of not-lpr.sh

-- 
Tim Van Holder - Falcon Software N.V.
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