Re^2: piping to lp is broken after perl upgrade

[myuserid7]

Thanks for your reply.

I created a files called test.ps.

$ cat test.ps 
%!PS
/Courier findfont
20 scalefont
setfont
72 500 moveto
(Hello world!) show
showpage

If I send it to the printer, it works. I get a Hello World.

So here is a recreation of the script that is failing.

#!/opt/csw/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

my $prolog = <<ENDPROLOG;
%!PS
/Courier findfont
20 scalefont
setfont
72 500 moveto
(Hello world!) show
showpage
ENDPROLOG
my $PRINT_CMD = '/usr/bin/lp -o nobanner';
open my $output, '|-', $PRINT_CMD
    or die "Can't open pipe to $PRINT_CMD: $!";
print $output $prolog;
close $output or warn "Error while closing pipe to $PRINT_CMD: $!";

[myuserid7]

I ended up abandoning the use the csw perl for this script. Instead, I pulled the 5.8.9 source and complied it on my Solaris 10 machine using gcc4.

I pointed the test script at the new compile and it started working.

Sadly, I am not that confident in the blastwave perl now. Surely just paranoia but once bitten...