faxlpr

Cornelius Creedon (neil@box1.staller.sunysb.edu)
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:38:00 -0500



On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 07:16:33PM -0500, Cornelius Creedon wrote:
> > which brings up:
> > i looked at least at "man faxspool" trying to find a way to get it to
> > write its messages to a file for me, but couldnt find a way. any
> > suggestions on that?
> 
> faxspool 12345 input.file.s >/some/where/faxspool.out 2>&1
> 
> gert

ahh. thank you, gert!
this is exactly the incantation i was looking for.

can you point me to some reading to really understand that?
i mean, i understand redirection i think, but more explanation would be
great. who is responsible for taking care of this? the shell?

thank you for this excellent collection of software as well as your
seemingly infinite patience and constant attention to this list.

-cc