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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Printing from WordPerfect 5.1, VP/ix, Esix
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.034419.28778@pegasus.com>
Date: 22 Nov 90 03:44:19 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.035855.2490@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>  [...]             Go into the printer menu Shift F7.  Now edit the
>printer that you are using so that it prints to a file.  On my system
>D:\text\output.prn.  Now when you print something it goes to this file.  If you
>print something else it will overwrite it.  A small (LARGE??) inconvience.
>After it is done printing, I copy the output file to /dev/lp1 and it works
>great.

Why not make output.prn be a named pipe on the Unix side (mknod output.prn p).
And then use a simple script to connect to the spooler:

	while :
	do
		cat .../output.prn | lp
	done

I'm not sure if that will work with Wordperfect, but it worked on a simple
test that I just tried.  Fixes the overwrite problem.



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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com