Question 19.8

How can I direct output to the printer?


Under Unix, either use popen (see question 19.30) to write to the lp or lpr program, or perhaps open a special file like /dev/lp. Under MS-DOS, write to the (nonstandard) predefined stdio stream stdprn, or open the special files PRN or LPT1.

References: PCS Sec. 5.3 pp. 72-74


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