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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: printing to remote
Keywords: tcp-ip
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.201014.7506@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Jul 90 20:10:14 GMT
References: <11671@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <11671@netcom.UUCP> bobb@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes:

>What I need though, is to be able to send lp commands from the prompt
>directly. I have set the 2 systems up on uucp and tried using the
>uux as: cat <filename> | uux <systemname>/lp! -d<printername>; but,
>it also isn't working right.

Try putting this in a script:
  cat $* | uux - "systemname!lp -dprintername"
execute with:
 scriptname filename(s)
 command | scriptname 
or scriptname <filename

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us