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Operating Systems SCO Printer is winning the battle! (for now) Post 302721781 by jgt on Thursday 25th of October 2012 07:23:10 PM

10-25-2012

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Code:

while [ $i -le $copies ]
do
    for file in $files
    do
        echo "\033\0170\061\033\0153\0\c"
        0<${file} eval ${FILTER} 2>&1
        echo "\033e\c"   # or whatever the escape sequence is to return the printer to its power on settings
        #echo "\014\c"     # "Remed out by SR to stop extra from feed..."   "
    done
    i=`expr $i + 1`
done

If you want to be really fancy, echo the escape sequences into a file, and then add a -o file_name to the lp statement.

Code:

=1
while [ $i -le $copies ]
do
    for file in $files
    do
        0< /usr/spool/lp/bin/$5  #because of the shift statement, you should copy $5 to a variable before the shift statment
        0<${file} eval ${FILTER} 2>&1
        echo "\033e\c"   # or whatever the escape sequence is to return the printer to its power on settings
        #echo "\014\c"     # "Remed out by SR to stop extra from feed..."   "
    done
    i=`expr $i + 1`
done

Code:

copies=$4
letterquality=$5
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
..........
         0</usr/spool/lp/bin/$letterquality
.......

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LP(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						     LP(1)

NAME

     lp -- front-end to the print spooler

SYNOPSIS

     lp [-cs] [-o option] [-d printer] [-n num] [name ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The lp utility is a front-end to the print spooler as required by the IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') specification.  It effectively invokes
     lpr(1) with the proper set of arguments.

     It generally prints the named files on the destination printer.

     The following options are available:

     -c      Make the lp command exit only after further access to any of the input files is no longer required.  The application can then safely
	     delete or modify the files without affecting the output operation.

     -d dest
	     Specify a particular printer.  If no -d is provided on the command line, the contents of the environment variables LPDEST or PRINTER
	     (with this precedence) are taken as the destination printer.

     -m      Send mail upon completion.

     -n num  Specify that num copies of each of the named files shall be printed.

     -o option
	     Printer specific options.	Not supported, provided only as a compatibility option for SVR.

     -s      Silent operation.	Not supported, provided only as a compatibility option for Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification (``SUSv2'').

     -t title
	     Set the job title to title.

ENVIRONMENT

     As described above, the variables LPDEST and PRINTER are examined to select the destination printer.

SEE ALSO

     lpr(1)

STANDARDS

     The lp command is expected to comply with the IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') specification.

AUTHORS

     This implementation of the lp command has been written by Jorg Wunsch.

BUGS

     The IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') specification does not provide any means to print non-text files.  It rather requires the files to be
     printed to be text files limited to reasonable line lengths and printable characters.

BSD
								 January 22, 1995							       BSD

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