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Re: Using Python instead of Bash

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Op Monday 1 Jun 2015 02:53 CEST schreef Dennis Lee Bieber:

> 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.)

Well, at the moment I will not bother about it then.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 14:42 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Alain Ketterlin <alain@universite-de-strasbourg.fr.invalid> - 2015-05-31 16:02 +0200
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 18:36 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 10:14 -0400
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 18:58 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-31 11:05 -0400
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 19:06 +0200
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-31 20:53 -0400
        Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 11:25 +0200
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 09:11 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-05-31 22:08 -0700
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-06-01 00:56 -0700
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-06-01 11:06 +0300
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-06-01 09:07 +0000
        Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 12:44 +0200
          Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 17:44 +0200
            Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 18:44 +0200
              Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 20:42 +0200
                Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 21:57 +0200
                Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 22:42 +0200
                Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 23:04 +0200
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 11:11 +0200
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 12:38 +0300
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-01 14:51 +0000

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