From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-07-04T06:31:41+09:00
Subject: Re: $stdout to printer

On 3 Jul 2009, at 22:15, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Dimas Cyriaco wrote:
>> Still trying to print stuff...
>> someone knows how to redirect $stdout to a printer??
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> Have been researching this, and not coming up with much. However,  
> I'm getting a strong sense that we need to know your OS.

On most platforms the printer will be mapped to a device file by the  
operating system, and this device file can be opened from Ruby like  
any other regular file. Of course as to whether or not plain text  
dumped to this file will result in the expected printed output is open  
to question: for example a PostScript printer may well expect the  
content written to the file to be a valid PostScript program.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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