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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