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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 02:40:52 -0500
From: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc: David Banning <david@banning.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Bad system call - workaround help needed
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I am actually using bash. I got it working. 
This is how;

cat $1 > ~/printfile
cat ~/printfile | lp -dlj -s &

Thanks -

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:36:13AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:19:35PM -0500, David Banning wrote:
> > This SCO program I am running allows me to pipe my reports out to
> > any program. I have to compile it into the database code, which is not
> > open.  I am piping to a printer but the program crashes.  
> > 
> > It works fine if I just pipe it to a shell script like this one;
> > 
> > cat $1 > ~/printfile
> > 
> > Then I can go "cat ~/printfile | lp -dlj -s"
> > and it prints fine.
> > 
> > But for some strange reason, if I expand the program to
> > 
> > cat $1 > ~/printfile
> > cat ~/printfile | lp -dlj -s
> > 
> > the program crashes,
> > with bad system call - signal 12
> 
> If you're using "~/printfile", it appears you're using the csh, how
> about seeing whether it works with /bin/sh?
> 
> ie:
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	cat $1 > /tmp/printfile
> 	cat /tmp/printfile | lp -dlj -s
> 
> or even shorten it to:
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	lp -dlj -s
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                 "If everything's under control, you're going too slow"
>                                                       - Mario Andretti
> 

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