minicom questions, need expert

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 12 May 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> But, this command line, which outputs to the screen very nicely if the
>> pipe and the rest of the line are removed, seems to send the data to
>> /dev/null:
>>
>> #>cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1
>
>Try something like:
>cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -
>or
>cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -- -
>
Either of those give this:
[root at coyote ~]# cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -
lpr: Error - unknown option '
^C
[root at coyote ~]# cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -- -
lpr: Error - unknown option '-'!

Thanks.

> From the lp man page:
>lp submits files for printing or alters a pending job. Use a
>filename of "-" to force printing from the standard input.
>
>Mikkel



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