minicom questions, need expert

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Gene Heskett wrote:
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Kevin J. Cummings
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> On Monday 12 May 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> But, this command line, which outputs to the screen very nicely if the
>>> pipe and the rest of the line are removed, seems to send the data to
>>> /dev/null:
>>>
>>> #>cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1
>> Try something like:
>> cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -
>> or
>> cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -- -
>>
> Either of those give this:
> [root at coyote ~]# cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -
> lpr: Error - unknown option '
> ^C
> [root at coyote ~]# cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -- -
> lpr: Error - unknown option '-'!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> From the lp man page:
>> lp submits files for printing or alters a pending job. Use a
>> filename of "-" to force printing from the standard input.

 From the lpr man page:
>        lpr submits files for printing. Files named on the command line are sent to the named printer (or the system default destination if  no
>        destination is specified). If no files are listed on the command-line, lpr reads the print file from the standard input.

So:

cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1

should be all that's needed....

>> Mikkel
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Kevin J. Cummings
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