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  2. From: ivory@e7sa.crd.ge.com (John Ivory)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
  4. Subject: Printing from within an Xview program
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov10.192610.12443@crd.ge.com>
  6. Date: 10 Nov 92 19:26:10 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: crd.1992Nov10.192610.12443
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  12.  
  13. What is the prefered mechanism for an Xview program sending something to the
  14. printer?  I would typically want to gen a file, and then do a
  15. system call to lpr...
  16.  
  17.     sprintf(command, "lpr %s", filename);
  18.     system(command);
  19.  
  20. The Xview documentation however warns against directly using system
  21. calls because of confusions with the Notifier.  I could have the
  22. program fork, and then do an exec call, but that seems like a lot
  23. of effort for the system to go through for such a simple task.
  24.  
  25. Ideas?  Suggestions?
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