Does 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:
%myprint
somefile
%someprogram
| myprint
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
/c
or
-n
. If your printer seems to lose characters, you may have flow-control problems. Try using a slower data rate to the terminal.
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