Printing locally

Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@octa4.net.au
Sun Mar 3 16:25:00 GMT 2002


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.

Cheers, Brian.
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           Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) b_duke@octa4.net.au  
Honorary Fellow in Chemistry, NT University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.
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