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Re: Printing on Win platforms [message #18222 is a reply to message #18221]

Thu, 09 December 1999 00:00

Liam Gumley
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Registered: November 1994

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Bernard Puc wrote:
> I predominantly work with IDL on unix systems. But now I have a
> routine that needs to be able to print text on a win95/98 platform as
> well. On unix, I would create a temporary file with the text to be
> printed and then do SPAWN, 'lpr '+tempfilename to print the file. Is
> there an equivalent method for win?

Ah the good old days when I drove MSDOS. How about this:

cmd = ''
case !version.os_family of
'Windows' : cmd = string(filename, format='("copy ", a, " prn:")')
'unix' : cmd = string(filename, format='("lpr ", a)')
else : message, 'I don't know how to print on this platform', /continue
endcase
if (cmd ne '') then spawn, cmd

> How about a better method for either?

I'll have to think about that.

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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