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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 'C' access to the lp spooling stuff, any ideas
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.095702.21188@erbe.se>
Date: 14 Dec 90 09:57:02 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.232035.14857@holos0.uucp> <13632@chaph.usc.edu>
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In article <13632@chaph.usc.edu>, jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English Muffin) writes:

|> 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.

Ahem, the question was regarding the System V "lp" spooler. For it, the
following should be done instead:

	popen("lp -s", "w");

In other words, not much of a difference.
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