Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:36:13 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: David Banning <david@banning.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad system call - workaround help needed Message-ID: <20010530093613.B93515@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010529131934.A3725@yahoo.com>; from sky_tracker@yahoo.com on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:19:35PM -0500 References: <20010529131934.A3725@yahoo.com>
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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>
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