output to printer

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  3, 2001, Alfredo Cortés Ponce de León <acortesp@imp.mx> wrote:

> I need some help regarding the way to send a fortran output (like in
> the write statement) to my printer installed in my paralell port.

You'd probably open /dev/lp[012] and write whatever you want to print
there.  But you probably wouldn't have permission to do that, and
should open a pipe to the print spooler instead.  See `man lpr'.

I'm afraid I've no idea of how to open a pipe in fortran.

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