#!/bin/perl

# I wrote this script to enable printing from XEmacs, which expects 
# a printing command which accepts text from *standard input*.

# So, this script reads the standard input, diverts it to a file,
# then calls Windows NT lpr with this file and any options given
# on the command line.

my $command = "lpr";

srand;  # seeds the random number generator

# lpr expects interprets its arguments in the DOS context, taking back
+slashes
$filestub = "\\tmp\\lp".(time%10000).".";
do {
    $filename = $filestub.int(rand(1000));
} while (-e $filename);

open SLURP, ">$filename";
print SLURP <STDIN>;   # put everything from stdin into this file
close SLURP;

my @args = ($command, @ARGV, $filename);
system(@args) == 0
    or die "system @args failed: $?";

unlink $filename;
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