Local Printing

[Brian Truter]

> Isn't switching on the local printer just a matter of sending the
> proper VT100-standard escape sequence?  Of course, you have to be
> running a terminal which supports this.  I know xterm does, but weird
> features like this aren't well supported.
>
> The sequence is <ESC>[5i begins printing all received text to the
> local printer, and <ESC>[4i stops.  So
>
> echo '\e[5i'; cat file; echo '\e[4i'
>
> might substitute, assuming of course that local printing works with
> your terminal.
>
>  - J<
>
>

I will give this a try, see if I can come up with anything. Thanks for the
ideas and info!