On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:30:47 +0200 (EET) "Petrov M.I." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > I write small script: > #!/bin/bash > echo -e "...PJL commands..." | cat > /dev/lp0
Try adding a newline: echo -e "...PJL commands...\n" | cat > /dev/lp0 > cat /dev/lp0 ??? > When I try it run I get nothing. > When I run this script two time (one after the other) > I get informations. > I need write to & read from /dev/lp0 in one & the same > script. How do this do? Any help appreciated. How do you _read_ from the printer, which is an output device? Are you trying to get status info back from the printer? You'd need something more low-level than bash for that. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
