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09-08-06, 03:37

mattlucas

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Printing from shell scrip

Hi

I am trying to print in land scape from a shell script but i'm not having much luck

I am using the following command

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lpr -o landscape -P printername test.txt

This will print but not in landscape. Can anyone help !what am I missing ???

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10-17-06, 05:28

dakota72

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Hi,
try: lp -d printername filename

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10-20-06, 05:45

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you might want to update the ppds

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