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

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On 07/04/15 11:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 07/04/15 11:30, Tim Watts wrote:

>> I don't know how old the OP is, but it's also worth recalling the days
>> of MS-DOS when the "OS" (and I use the term loosely) had no concept of a
>> printer beyond presenting a raw character IO type device.
>>
>> Every application had to have its own bundle of print drivers and it was
>> a right PITA if one app did know know about a particular printer.
>>
>> I'm with you totally in that noone should ever try to replicate that!
>
> I think we all agree on that, the more relevant question is at what
> level should the programmer tap into the whole cups process?

On a side note I find it hugely ironic that Android (at least pre 
Kitkat) did not bother with a printing subsystem either - and neither do 
the apps. So you have a huge kludge of installing a random app that 
knows about your printer and understands some random subset of document 
formats.


> 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.

Personally, I'd stick with this - it's the unix way and it makes it 
possible to specify the spawned command (and optionally args) in a 
config file.

> Next up from that is to write the file and use the cups API to print it
> with no system call needed.
>
> Finally you can hack the CUPS source to write to a socket connected
> CUPSD directly without needing an intermediate file.

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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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