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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!usc!news!netlabs!lwall
  2. From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
  4. Subject: Re: reopening STDOUT as another stream
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep5.071243.8404@netlabs.com>
  6. Date: 5 Sep 92 07:12:43 GMT
  7. References: <lafrc7INN84@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
  8. Sender: news@netlabs.com
  9. Organization: NetLabs, Inc.
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  13. In article <lafrc7INN84@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
  14. : 
  15. : I can't quite figure out how to freopen STDOUT as another
  16. : stream. Any suggestions?
  17.  
  18. If you aren't running an ancient version, ordinary open should work
  19. fine for that:
  20.  
  21.     open(STDOUT, "| lpr")
  22.  
  23. Larry
  24.