Re: [SL] HELP NEEDED:More information

[Chris T. <ch...@me...>]

Ok.  I think I can provide some background.

In *nix, lpr is able to take input from standard input.  SL takes 
advantage of this by opening up the printer command with a pipe.

So it is equivalent of doing cat filename | lpr.

For a Windows LPR to work, it will also need to accept the input from 
standard input, unless you want to hack SL to open the file based on 
path instead.

Tero Afelt wrote:

> In microsoft documentation is told that:
>
> ( 
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/lpr.mspx)
>
> Syntax
>
> lpr [-S ServerID] -P PrinterName [-C BannerContent] [-J JobName] [{-o 
> | -o l}] [-d] [-x] FileName
>
> Parameters
>
<snip>

> FileName : Required. Specifies, by name, the file to be printed.
>
Here is your problem.  The XP lpr program doesn't appear to accept job 
data from standard input.  Go Microsoft   :-P

You can either look for another command-line tool that does, or you can 
print to screen and print that way.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting