[ale] Perl Print Question

[Wandered Inn]

Bob Kruger wrote:


> I now have additional printers on the network, and would like to be able to
> take advantage of capability to route in my printcap file.  If I had a
> printer on another server called HP3 with the name HP3 in the local
> printcap file, could I just do following:
> 
> open ( LPR -PHP3 ">tty") ;


open (LPR "|lpr -PPRINTERNAME");
write LPR;
print LPR $foo;

This works for me.  I printed to a local printer and a Samba networked
printer..


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