{"id":407,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=407"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"printing-plain-text-to-dot-matrix-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Printing plain text to dot matrix printers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got an old dot matrix printer around and you want to print out some plain text? Plug it into your computer and launch the Printer prefs panel, then click Add. Your printer should come online. Close the preferences panel.<br \/>\nNow launch a Terminal window and &#8222;cat&#8220; a file to your printer. For example, if you want to print the file <code>blah.txt<\/code> to a printer on parallel port 1, you would type:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\ncat blah.txt &amp;gt; \/dev\/parallel\/parallel1<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got an old dot matrix printer around and you want to print out some plain text? Plug it into your computer and launch the Printer prefs panel, then click Add. Your printer should come online. Close the preferences panel. Now launch a Terminal window and &#8222;cat&#8220; a file to your printer. For example, if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}