'C' access to the lp spooling stuff, any ideas

Joe English Muffin jeenglis at alcor.usc.edu
Thu Dec 13 21:48:56 AEST 1990


wdh at holos0.uucp (Weaver Hickerson) writes:

>I'd like to be able to queue files by writing into the lp fifos, tables,
>and whatever other magic is involved.  Does anybody know of the format,
>rules, caveats, etc for this type of thing.

    popen("lpr","w");

is by far your best bet.


--Joe English

  jeenglis at alcor.usc.edu



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