Re: [MacPerl] Accessing printers from MacPerl

[Jay Kamm <jwk3@acpub.duke.edu>]

On Thu, 9 May 1996 davidh@SDL.UG.EDS.COM wrote:

> open( PRINTER, ">Dev:Printer")
> 
> and writing text to this filehandle
> 
> and many variants of this. It doesn't give an error, so the open must succeed,
> but it never prints anything. What do I need in order to be able to 
<snip>

Why not write to a temp file, modify the file's creator to BBEdit, and 
then pass a "print" AppleEvent to the Finder specifying the temp file...

I haven't worked with the perl for passing high level AppleEvents, but I 
would tend to think that would work...

Good luck!

--jay
http://www.duke.edu/~jwk3/