printing filePro to Datamax printer

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Butch Ammon (Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:52:53 EDT):

> I don't know if this will get posted to the filePro list or not, but I
> have a
> question about those small Datamax label printers.  How can you get
> filePro to
> print to them from SCO Unix?  Is there a special Unix serial printer
> device
> driver?  I want to setup a label in filePro and have it be sent to the
> Datamax
> printer, and it just flatly ignores any print request I send to it.
>
> Thanks for any help and ideas with label printers.

The first question is "can you print to it from the Unix command prompt?"
If you can't print there, then obviously filePro can't, either.  If you
can, how exactly would you print a short file to it?  In other words,
what command would you use here:

    cat filename | what_command_goes_here

(No, this isn't really a "useless use of cat", as I want to make sure
that the command is getting the file via a pipe, just as it would i
filePro were printing to it.)

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