actually shell is not a real shell, thats why | does not work.
The best thing to do is to write a shell script that does what you want and execute that.
toprinter: #!/bin/sh echo -n "$1" | lpr -P pinwriter
and call shell like this ./toprinter whatever
Guenter
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, oli wrote:
Hi tried some ways to print letters/message via pd
- with lp.pd and the printer on /dev/lp1 couldn't get the printer move
his head only mine.
- by sending the message: echo -n 'smthing' | lpr -P pinwriter to the
[shell] object as well no movement - putting the message in the shell works fine - is the pipe not passed by the shell object? -message lpr -P pinwriter tmp_file.txt or lp -d tmp_file.txt with [shell] works well but writing a tmp_file is too slow for my intention. anyone dealt with printing out of pd and could give me a hint feeding the printer directly with characters? greets oli
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