form command and printer file "nameoffile"

[Brian K. White]

On 5/15/2012 1:09 PM, Dennis Malen wrote:
> I also tried: printer file "nomjudg.txt"; form "affatty"


Do it like this:

et = "/tmp/filename.txt"
system noredraw "umask 0;>"{et
printer type "hplaser"
printer file et
form "formname"
printer reset


Except in real life I never use a hardcoded static filename like that so 
that multiple users can't step on each other, and I don't leave temp 
output files lying around after use, and I put most of that into gosubs 
so it really looks more like this:


gosub prset
form "formname"
gosub pfe


prset:'print file setup
printer reset
declare printfile(256,,g)
printfile = getenv("PFTMP"){"/"{@fi{@rn{getenv("LOGNAME"){rand()
system noredraw "umask 0;>" { printfile
printer type "hplaser"
printer file printfile
return

pfe:' print/fax/email
printer reset
system "d" < printfile
x = remove(printfile)
return


"d" is just a (poorly named) thing of our own that takes a filename and 
prints it, faxes it, emails it, puts it into a pdf, displays it in a 
browser etc, either interactively with a menu or non interactively 
controlled by environment variables. You wouldn't literally use that 
line. It just serves to show what order to do things in. Where I have 
system "d" < printfile  you would have whatever you need to do with the 
file.

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bkw