thank you, thank you. Steven Ruby Jed Dobson Jay Lessert David Foster simplest solution (and message) was from Jed, who said: xwd -root | xpr | lp -d yourprinter since I have already managed printer routing, I dropped the "-d yourprinter". since I got some errors, but it worked anyway, I routed stderr to /dev/null in. then I popped it all into a shell script, set up a menu option for the SunRay restricted access mode to call that script, and just have to restart SunRay services when the library isn't live. so, #!/bin/ksh /usr/openwin/bin/xwd -root 2>/dev/null \ | /usr/openwin/bin/xpr | lp --------------- alternatives included (1) hack snapshot & script it straight to the printer. (2) By installing netpbm: http://soldc.sun.com/freeware/details/detail_netpbm_1mar94.p1_8_SPARC.html you can just do: % xwd -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtops | lpr -whatever netpbm is a swiss army knife collection of raster translators, and is *extremely* powerful to have hanging off your belt. (3) I'd recommend using XV for this kind of thing, it's a GREAT program, and free! For scripting purposes look into xwd. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk -- O__ ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <choogend@library.umass.edu> --------------- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Oct 21 14:46:35 2002
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