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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: print option problems
Message-ID: <1055@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Apr 89 05:15:24 GMT
References: <198696@hrc.UUCP> <100@dsinc.UUCP> <4929@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <4929@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
+In article <100@dsinc.UUCP> syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) writes:

++Your almost there with this one.  It's
++
++print = cat %s | lp -dprinter
++
++The reason the lp -dprinter %s doesn't work is probably that elm deletes
++the temporary file and lp cannot find it after its gone.
+
+Actually another reason why it doesn't work is that a filename as an
+argument to System V lp(1) must be readable by "other", and for security
+reasons ELM creates temp files with permissions 0600.

Just use "lp -dprinter -c %s". (-c option means copy immediately).

It *should* work (although I didn't try it). Now the file is copied during
the lp command. This circumvents the problem of deletion of the file
temporary to Elm and it also creates a lp-readable file in the spool
directory of lp.

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