Printing to a Printer (Win98)

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

I need to print to a printer from a perl script running on ActivePerl on a Win98 system. chromatic said here that on a UNIX system it was enough to "open a pipe to lpr". Can I also do that on WIndows? If so, how do you "open a pipe to lpr"? If not, do you know of any module that I can use that would allow me to do that?

Thanx.

Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

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Re: Printing to a Win98 Printer (Win32, Win32API) by ybiC (Prior) on Jul 28, 2000 at 01:31 UTC
http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-category/22_Microsoft_Windows_Modules/ turns up Win32 and Win32API (bundles I think). A quick spin through the bundles didn't turn up anything obvious like Win32::Print, but a closer look might uncover a hidden gem. You've probably already done this, but http://www.activestate.com/Support/index.html may be a better source of info for your question. cheers, ybiC	[reply]
Re: Printing to a Printer (Win98) by tye (Sage) on Jul 28, 2000 at 07:29 UTC
One of: `open(PRINTER,">prn") or die "Can't write to aux: $!\n"; open(PRINTER,">lpt1") or die "Can't write to lpt1: $!\n";` [download] should let you write text to be printed. But I know almost nothing about this.	[reply] [d/l]
(zdog) RE: (2) Printing to a Printer (Win98) by zdog (Priest) on Jul 28, 2000 at 08:26 UTC
Thanks a lot. It gets the job done to a certain extent, but it still needs to have a few kinks worked out. But it gives me a great start, thanks. Zenon Zabinski \| zdog \| zdog7@hotmail.com	[reply]