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- From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: /dev
- In-Reply-To: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 21 Dec 92 05:52:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <BZS.92Dec21012810@world.std.com>
- Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Organization: The World
- References: <1h3m36INNd4l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:28:10 GMT
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- From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
- > 2. How do I print to a remote printer. I suppose I could fork
- > and exec lpr. Is that the reccomended method?
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- This is what you want to do for both local and remote printers, see
- popen(3). The rest of the message is plausible, but mostly an attempt
- to impose your former culture on Unix and fraught with peril and
- unnecessary complexity as you seemed to sense.
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- -Barry Shein
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