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Subject: Re: Using Python instead of Bash
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:53:49 -0400
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On Sun, 31 May 2015 19:06:40 +0200, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
declaimed the following:

>
>By the way: because of the lpr my script only works on Linux (and
>probably Unix and Apple). Can I rewrite it in such a way that it also
>works with Windows? Someone else has to test it then, because I do not
>have a Windows computer.

	Not easily... Either you install something like cygwin which MAY
include LPR, or...

1)	You invoke (instead of LPR) some application that accepts a command
line argument telling it to do a print (I'm pretty sure that long ago M$
Word accepted a command line /p to print, but it seems that has gone away
replaced with something uglier -- notepad /p <file> works for simple text
files... I managed to get Acrobat Reader to open a PDF and bring up a print
requester, but that path still required the user to hit a number of dialog
windows)

2)	You incorporate win32 system calls to manage a print job in all details
(create bitmap, provide bitmap to print driver, etc.)

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