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Re: printing a string

by klekker (Pilgrim)
on Apr 13, 2007 at 09:03 UTC ( [id://609852]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to printing a string

Does
# untestet! system("echo '$string' | lpr");
work? I use a similar construct to pipe some data to gnuplot and I think an 'echo' is necessary. (And perhaps you'll have to specify the Printer with '-P PRINTERNAME', too.)

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