How to print to a printer

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have the following shell code that i would like a perl translation
(platform independant) for, as the program is to be used on either *nix or NT.
I have looked in a couple of books that I have available but found nothing.

lp -c -d$Device $File

Any help from you wisest of perlographers would be kindly appreciated.

Alex.

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Re: How to print to a printer by dree (Monsignor) on Aug 15, 2002 at 12:21 UTC
There is a module on CPAN: Printer by Stephen Patterson that tries to give a common interface to the various printer methods. It embeds the OS dependent ways to print and it wraps them.	[reply]
Re: How to print to a printer by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 15, 2002 at 11:43 UTC
That cannot be done platform independent. On UNIX, using `lp` or `lpr` is the most platform independent way you can get (some OSses offer both `lp` and `lpr`. But one is BSD, the other System V), but options may vary. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]