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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Printing from WordPerfect 5.1, VP/ix, Esix
Message-ID: <1990Nov25.234152.17383@unixland.uucp>
Date: 25 Nov 90 23:41:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.035855.2490@unixland.uucp> <1990Nov22.034419.28778@pegasus.com>
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In article <1990Nov22.034419.28778@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>
>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:
>

As someone pointed out to me, the actual solution is to mknod a output.prn 
to mimick /dev/lp1.


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