On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 16:40 +0100, tutor-requ...@python.org wrote: > That is a surprise! I was so use to using lprint as in Basic. Oh > well. I will have to study up on fmt and/or groff. > > Would those two commands (fmt, groff) send data to lpr from shell? > Is > lpr the same hookup for USB port? > > Thanks, > > Ken
well, for a long time, lpr didn't work, as all the distros had moved away from the old lpd and gone with cups, but there was the old lpr command that still expected lpd to be set up. I just tried it on my system (Ubuntu 9.10) and I find that lpr is yet again working, it has been updated and is now a frontend for cups. suggest you read the man pages for fmt and groff to see what those commands will do to your text. By default, they both output to stdout, so you would have to redirect their output in some way to cups. Rick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
