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| Re: Printing a text file. [message #28327] |
Tue, 04 December 2001 10:04 |
Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997
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John Copley wrote:
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> I am looking for ways to print an ascii text file from within an IDL
> application. I need to be able to do this for unix, windows and macos.
> Unix is not a problem: I spawn a command such as "lpr -Plp0 filename".
> With Windows the best I have been able to come up with is to spawn a
> command such as "c:\windows\notepad.exe /p filename" which is not very
> elegant (and nor is the printout). I haven't yet investigated
> possibilities for macos.
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> Also does anyone know of a way to attach the date and time to
> printouts of IDL source code? I get very confused when I have multiple
> printouts and do not know which is the latest version.
Check your software into a revision control system (like CVS or RCS or others). This will tag
the file with a date and version number. I prefer CVS because you can access your software
repository remotely. See
http://www.cvshome.org/
They have source and binaries for windows, unix/linux, Macs, and VMS systems.
But, if you print out the source code every time you make a change (between checking in the
software to CVS/RCS/whatever), then even that won't help you.
For date and time tagged printer output, I use enscript - a GNU ASCII->PostScript utility that
produces nice looking output. See:
http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/
I can't tell if it works on a Mac.
I'm sure there are other similar utilities about.
paulv
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