[Gambas-user] How to sent a line line to a lp1 printer and form to lp0 printer directly.

[Doriano Blengino]

Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
>> these are shell commands, cat and echo
>> cat shows the contents of a file and echo print a string in screen
>> we use redirection which is >
>> to a device printer /dev/lp0 or lp1 or lp2 see what is your printer
>>
>> To print a file you can write in shell or in gambas SHELL command the
>>  command cat file > /dev/lp0
>>
>> there must be a file with name "file" which contains what you want to print
>>
>> or if you want to print a line straight use echo
>>
>> if you type in a console echo "test" you see in console the word test,
>> so you redirect this to printer lp0 with this command
>>
>> echo "test" > /dev/lp0
>> and you print it.
>>
>> try them fisrt from a console and then use them with Gambas SHELL or EXEC
>>
>>     
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> In Gambas, you can use PRINT instead of running a shell to run "echo"!
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>   
This is true but... can I redirect output to every file I want using a 
simple one-line syntax?
It could be interesting, as in the unix world everything is a file:

    PRINT "Program started" TO "/var/log/messages"      ' append? or...
    PRINT "Program started" APPEND "/var/log/messages"

...or something like that. Truth is that one can make a subroutine to do it.

Regards,
Doriano