On 10/03/2011 03:11 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > lp would print a file to the named printer. How do I print or redirect the > console output to the printer as is the case in "ls -lha > prn" > > And moreover a legacy program is printing to a device lpt1, had the port > existed & been connected/redirected to some printer....it would have > printed. > > Problem here is that there is no connection between the print output of the > software and the lpd/lpr/cups/smb device. The software is NOT modified to > recognize the lpr/cups device and therefore is printing to a lpt1 port, as > all DOS legacy programs do. What I need to do is somehow capture the output > to the lpt1 device & redirect it to the printer setup on linux.
prn, lpt1, lpt2, etc are WINDOWS device names. To print to local connected printers in unix/linux you can pipe output to lp directly: ls -lha | lp or you can send directly to the physical port ls -lha > /dev/lp0 but that kinda defeats the purpose of having a printer driver, doesn't it? > Is it possible to create a directory named lpt1 in /dev and make it behave > like a device (whatever behaving like a device is), so that the program > output written to it can be redirected to the the linux printer? > > With best regards. > Sanjay. > > > > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.xlinuxcounter.net/) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
