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Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C?

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>The quickest and simplest is to write the file to stdout
>or a tmp location and invoke a system() type call to
>handle it as a separate process.
>
>Next up from that is to write the file and use the cups
>API to print it with no system call needed.

That is over complicating it by quite a bit.

The next step up from system() is using popen(),
which does not require that a file be written
to disk, but otherwise is essentially the exact same
interface.

>Finally you can hack the CUPS source to write to a
>socket connected CUPSD directly without needing an
>intermediate file.

That's getting rediculous.  Same with using the
API.

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Floyd L. Davidson                         http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                      floyd@apaflo.com

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How do you access the printer in Linux/C? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-04-06 17:07 -0700
  Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-04-07 04:23 +0100
    Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 05:46 +0100
    Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-04-07 02:16 -0800
      Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-04-07 11:30 +0100
        Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 11:51 +0100
          Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-04-07 03:11 -0800
            Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 12:37 +0100
              Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-04-07 08:31 -0700
          Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-04-07 12:24 +0100
        Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-04-07 16:26 +0000
      Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 11:46 +0100
      Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-05-06 08:50 +0000
        Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-05-06 13:36 +0000
          Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 10:44 +0000
            Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-05-08 13:51 +0000
              Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-05-08 14:58 +0000
                Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-05-11 13:24 +0000
                Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-05-11 14:40 -0500
            Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-05-08 14:55 +0000
  Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 05:43 +0100
  Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-04-07 12:15 -0400
    Re: How do you access the printer in Linux/C? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-04-09 15:39 -0700

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