[cups.general] Re: Legacy program printing epson FX emulation

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jan 25 12:41 Dave Dubreuil wrote (shortened):
> Should this work for feeding to the top of the next sheet,
> or would it feed the paper a form's length from where it stops printing?

It depends on the printer what it does when it gets a formfeed
character.
The printers which I know feed to the top of the next sheet.

> What does this line do [ -n "$6" ] && exec <"$6" ?

See the comment "have the input at fd0 (stdin) in any case".
For details see the "bash" documentation.

> ... a way to input text to a queue and have it processed
> and printed as pages of text?

A printer model specific "System V style Interface Script"
could do it.
You may like to use "fold" to wrap too long lines
and "pr" to paginate and columnate for printing.


Kind Regards
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