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Re: Printing a text file. [message #28411 is a reply to message #28330]

Wed, 05 December 2001 06:08

Mark Rivers
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Registered: February 2000

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John Copley <john.copley@nist.gov> wrote in message
news:cf9627bd.0112040940.4d2a9de7@posting.google.com...
> 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.

With Windows I print Postscript files by spawning "print
/d:\\server_name\printer_share_name file_name.ps"

You should be able to do the same with text files.

Mark Rivers

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		Printing a text file. By: john.copley on Tue, 04 December 2001 09:40
		Re: Printing a text file. By: Andrew Cool on Wed, 05 December 2001 16:45
		Re: Printing a text file. By: Mark Rivers on Wed, 05 December 2001 06:08
		Re: Printing a text file. By: Andrew Cool on Tue, 04 December 2001 18:28

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