Re: [MacPerl] setting Dev:Printer

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au (Danny Thomas) writes:
>I'm picking up MacPerl for the first time for a rush job. I've had a look
>through the mailing list digests where I noticed you could directly send
>PostScript to "the printer". Anyway I've taken this from sendps in the
>5.10b2 app distribution. I tried adding the NBP tuple to a PRINTER
>environment variable but that didn't work. At least I'm assuming
>Dev:Printer uses GUSI to directly access a networked (PostScript) entity.
>How do I specify the printer?

 - Dev:Printer always connects to the printer chosen in the Chooser.
 - I don't think there is a way in Perl to connect to another printer
 - The whole mechanism isn't very well tested.

Matthias

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