Re: [hpoj-devel] ptal-printd txt file

[Richard <ric...@bt...>]

> Message: 2
> To: hpo...@li... Cc: pa...@rc... Subject: Re: [hpoj-devel] ptal-printd txt file 
> From: pa...@rc... (David Paschal)
> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 14:41:08 -0800
> Reply-To: hpo...@li...  Richard Phillips wrote:
> 
>> I want to capture output of ptal-printd (ptal-printd > foo.txt) but 
>> foo.txt never contains any content, whether running as root or user.
>>  > Tried variations with cat and lpr but no luck. Not a serious prob - but 
>> any solutions appreciated.
> 
>  Hi, Richard.  What exactly are you trying to do here?  Normally ptal-printd
> doesn't display anything on standard output unless an error occurs.  It
> just sits around waiting for data to be written to a pipe and then sends it
> to the printer.
> 
> David

Thought you may have spotted newbieness of request - I simply wanted a 
text file of ptal's syntax, which is obtained by ptal-printd >& foo.txt, 
of course.