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How to write printer source code to Windows printer share from ruby?

Using java, minus exception handling, is as easy as

FileOutputStream ostream = new FileOutputStream("\\\\host\\share");
PrintStream printStream = new PrintStream(ostream);
printStream.print("HELLO PRINTER");
printStream.close();
ostream.close();
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File.open("\\\\host\\share") do |f|
  f.print("HELLO PRINTER#{12.chr}")
end


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While I've never tried typing with Ruby, and while I don't have a Windows machine available for testing, it seems to me that you don't want to use a class File

, but a class instead IO

. You can see its documentation here: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html . It looks like it actually has Windows specific options, so take a look and if it's not overly helpful please let me know why.



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