43.6 Printing to a Terminal PrinterDoes your terminal have an extra port on the back for plugging in a printer? You might be able to hook up a serial printer to the port. Then you can make a little shell script named something like myprint and use it this way:
% The myprint shell script can be as simple as this:
echo "\033[5i\c" cat $* echo "\033[4i\c" or this:
escape=`echo -n e | tr e '\033'` echo -n "$escape[5i" cat $* echo -n "$escape[4i"
depending on
what version of
echo
your UNIX has . (
46.10
)
Your terminal may need different escape sequences; these are for a
VT100-compatible terminal.
(Articles
41.10
and
5.2
can help.)
Some terminals may require a newline after the escape sequences;
if yours doesn't work, try the
echo
commands without the - |
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