On 10/14/13 20:31, Peter Slegg wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:15:24 , Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> wrote:On 14/10/2013 20:37, Peter Slegg wrote:I tried lp.xdd but couldn't get background printing to work at all.If I'm not wrong, lp.xdd adds the /dev/lp device which is not used by anything.What was the intention of lp.xdd ? I was guessing that the printer control panel could be directed to the lp device but it didn't print anything.
It's just a character device that outputs data to the printer... So, cat `some-text-file` > /dev/lp would print that text file. Alan.