Yes it created a file and it was empty. Just like what i did before. The browser displayed the message without errors. But when i tried redirecting the outputfile to /dev/ttyS0, nothing. When i ran the print.pl from the shell it prints: "lpr: error - scheduler not responding!"
-John
>John,
>
>Try this simple script called print.pl
>
>!/usr/bin/perl
>open(OUTPUT, "| lpr");
>print OUTPUT "Hello from Perl.\n";
>close OUTPUT
>
>and create this simple cfm page called testperl.cfm
>
><html>
><head>
><title>Test Perl Print page</title>
></head>
><body bgcolor="#ffffff">
>This is a test of the print.pl script using cfexecute
>
><cfexecute name="/var/www/html/print.pl"
>outputfile="/var/www/html/testoutput.txt" timeout="1"></cfexecute>
>
><p>Test Should be complete</p>
></body>
></html>
>
>Now even though it creates a file called testoutput.txt, the file
>should be empty. Make sure that you change the path to match your
>directory. Now this simple perl file ran without any problems on my
>machine. I hope you have similar luck.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Derrick
>
>
>
>On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:16 PM, John Puzon wrote:
>
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