PRINTER NAME variable?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:45:03PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:05:58 -0500):
> >Can the PRINTER NAME command not be used with a variable as the
> >argument?
> 
> Yes, the PRINTER commands can take expressions.

I thought so, but the help file *and manual* fail to say.  You guys
really need to get the meta-syntax cleaned up in there...

> >I'm pulling a printer name out of getenv, and then saying
> >
> >PRINTER NAME lp
> >
> >but the following
> >
> >FORM "barcode" command isn't printing... anywhere, as car as I can
> >tell.  Thoughts?
> 
> What are the contents of lp, and what is the corresponding definition
> in pmaint?

lp gets GETENV("LBLPRT") assigned to it, and a show statment says
that's "njaud1".

In config:

	printer19=njaud1,nocodes,lp -dnjaud1 -s, NJ Aud label 1

My printers currently go from 1 through 22, inclusive.

njaud1 is a valid Linux printer; 

	lp -dnjaud1 /tmp/bctest 

prints a label.

Cheers,
-- jra
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