Use the DOS 'Net Use' command to map a port to a network device,
example: 'Net Use LPT9: \\Server\My_Printer'
then use the DOS 'print' command to print to the printer,
example: 'print /D:LPT9 c:\my_Docs\myfile.txt'
I am pretty sure that should work fine.
Steve K
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:25 PM
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> Subject: printing from Perl to Windows printer
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> From a Perl script I would like to send PostScript files (aka text files)
>
> to an already defined Windows printer. Is there a way to do this? Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
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