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.
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