2009/2/22 Spencer Chase <spen...@spencerserolls.com> > > Greetings Jon et.al, > > I installed win32::printer using the graphical version of PPM. No > problems installing but it looks like this module is way more than I > need to just send plain text to a chosen printer, realtime. Any > suggestions as to how to do this (maybe a sample script?) would be > appreciated. I want to send simple ASCII text to a printer for which I > have the control codes. I want to be able to immediately send each > character and not deal with buffering or anything complex. > > Saturday, February 21, 2009, 8:50:51 AM, you wrote: > JB> In the activestate ppm repository at: > > JB> http://ppm4.activestate.com/idx/W3...WU.html > > JB> Win32::Printer is listed but it is not available for download. > JB> The build logs show that there were fatal errors during the build > JB> on 5.8 and 5.10. > > JB> If I simply want to send a plain text file to the default > JB> printer what is recommended? > > JB> Thank you!
This was a thread on one of the AS lists a while back - I'm sure if you search you'll find it there. Win32::Printer from memory only works on 5.8 and above and ppm installs fine on my DOS prompt:- C:\Perl\Programs>ppm install Win32-Printer Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done Updating ActiveState Package Repository database...done Downloading Kobes packlist...not modified Downloading Win32-Printer-0.9...done Unpacking Win32-Printer-0.9...done Generating HTML for Win32-Printer-0.9...done Updating files in site area...done 10 files installed C:\Perl\Programs>print /? Prints a text file. PRINT [/D:device] [[drive:][path]filename[...]] /D:device Specifies a print device. C:\Perl\Programs> Hardly a recommendation since you'll have to call it as a system command, but Window's native print command should do you just fine.
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