Still not 100% sure what you're asking here. With CGI, Perl is a server-side scripting language. A button on your web page, if posting to a CGI script, would execute the Perl script on the server, which is the only place Perl can initiate a print function. So if this is the route you can go, a user hitting a web page and clicking on a Print button would post a form to your CGI script, and your CGI script would presumably print something on the server, not the client's printer.
If you're wanting to put a button on an HTML page that prints the current page in the client's printer (as if the user clicked on File | Print in their browser), you can't do this with Perl. Consider JavaScript or some ActiveX/Java component that would communicate with the browser and initiate a print command that way. Perl can't directly interact with a browser. All it does in a CGI context is return content to the browser, typically in the form of an HTML page.
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Thanks a lot for the help. The explanation was nice and clear. But I have one more question is that what do you use NET::Printer what exactly does that module do.
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If a Perl script wishes to interact with a printer on the network (hence Net::Printer) that speaks the Unix standard 'lpd' protocols, this is the module it would use. It's equivalent to some module that would let you use a network or locally installed printer under Windows.
Again, this is all local to where the script is being run. If the user/system that the script resides has no means to print to an arbitrary printer, a Perl script using this or any other module isn't going to be able to either. This has nothing to do with stuff on the client side.
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How can you send attachments to email. I used sendmail to send emails. I was trying to use MIME::Lite to send attachments but it is giving me an error when i use the attach().
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