How do I print to a printer using mconnect? I tried all of the following for the starting line:

open (MPRINT, "|$mconn |$ipconnect") || die "Can't open $mconn!\n";
open (MPRINT, "|-") || exec '$mconn' || die "Can't open pipe to $mconn!";
open (MPRINT, "$mconn|") or die $!;
$mconn is "mconnect 123.456.78.90 -p 1234"

The only one that works is:

open (MPRINT, "|$mconn") or die $!;

It prints, but I get an error on my computer, so it is worthless...I don't know what the error is, and I don't know how to find out what the error is. I don't know why I get the error...I'm not printing anything into the pipe at that point. I've closed the open statement...I don't know what is wrong.

I have just started learning Perl for the first time this week, and am hoping that somebody can just give me a line of code that will print using mconnect and not give an error. Thank You! :)

In reply to Printing with mconnect by timmyb85

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