Re: [hylafax-users] how to print on different printers

[A J Stiles <hylafax_resp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 January 2007 09:09, hylafax@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Probably a really dumb question, but the examples in the man pages,
> howto's etc. I found all invoke tiff2ps directly.
>
> How would the above work with that ttyS0) PRINTER=printer-A;; doesn't seem
> to invoke tiff2ps at all?
>
> Or is this line "ttyS0) PRINTER=printer-A;;" simply defining the contents
> of the variable PRINTER?

Yes, that's exactly what it's doing.  In bash, variable names are prefixed 
with a $ sign to read out their values; as seen in the later line

> >  tiff2ps -a $FILE | lpr -P $PRINTER

This is looking for variables FILE and PRINTER, and the interpreter will 
substitute their values when it calls up the tiff2ps command.

--
AJS

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