output to printer

[Toon Moene]

nbecker@fred.net wrote:

> I  wrote:

> > You cannot do that directly on Linux - you have to do something like:

> > ./a.out | lpr

> Sorry to be picky, but what do you mean by "cannot do that directly on
> Linux"?  You can (in principle) do anything you want.

Well, there _is_ a difference between doing something "directly" and
being able to do it "in principle".

You don't want users to log in as root just for the pleasure of doing:

      OPEN(UNIT=1, FILE='/dev/lp0')
      WRITE(UNIT=1, *) 'HELLO, WORLD'
      END
:-)

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