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Re: [ic] Redirecting to paper printouts.
scott d medlock - network engineer <scottm@cosimo.net> writes:
> Have an interesting challenge.....
>
> A customer wants me to implement Interchange into their retail store
> operation as their Point-of-Sale system
> sharing the database with their webserver.
>
> Getting that part going isn't much of a problem.. But, something else
> they want has me scratching my head...
>
> They want their in-store version of Interchange to not email anything...
> They would like to have it send output
> to a printer with all information (including CC) so they have a paper
> ticket and carbon for their customer
> receipt and their own records.
>
> In short... place an order in the system and out comes a paper copy...
>
> Has anyone done this already?
No, but should be easy to do with a sendmail alias which pipes
the email to lpr. Probably you need a little more sophisticated,
but a script doing the conversion, e.g. Email to Postscript
shouldn't be that hard.
Ciao
Racke
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