From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2010-03-28T11:08:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Print from irb to CUPS daemon

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:42:35 +0900, byrnejb wrote:

> I have googled for this topic but cannot seem to find anything useful. 
> I want to print a few things directly from an irb session to one of a
> number of networked printers that I have configured with CUPS.
> 
> $ lpstat -v
> device for HPLj5N: socket://168.192.1.49:9100 device for NP4172:
> lpd://168.192.1.52/NP4172 device for NP4173: lpd://168.192.1.53/NP4173
> device for NP4174: lpd://168.192.1.54/NP4174
> 
> For example:
> 
>>> my_lp = File.open("????","w")
>>>
>>> my_lp.puts(my_array)
> 
> What argument string do I use in order to obtain an IO stream to one of
> these devices?

my_lp = IO.popen("lp -d printername")



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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/