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From: jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English Muffin)
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Subject: Re: 'C' access to the lp spooling stuff, any ideas
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wdh@holos0.uucp (Weaver Hickerson) writes:

>I'd like to be able to queue files by writing into the lp fifos, tables,
>and whatever other magic is involved.  Does anybody know of the format,
>rules, caveats, etc for this type of thing.

    popen("lpr","w");

is by far your best bet.


--Joe English

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