Hello world/Line printer
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Cause a line printer attached to the computer to print a line containing the message Hello World!
BASIC
<lang qbasic>LPRINT "Hello World!"</lang>
Batch File
<lang dos>ECHO Hello world!>PRN</lang>
C++
<lang cpp>#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::cout << "Hello world!" << std::endl; // std::endl provides a portable descriptor for line ending. return 0;
}</lang>
J
<lang j>require'print' print'Hello world!'</lang>
PicoLisp
<lang PicoLisp>(out '(lpr "-P" "Printer01")
(prinl "Hello world") )</lang>
PureBasic
<lang PureBasic>MyPrinter$ = LPRINT_GetDefaultPrinter() If LPRINT_OpenPrinter(MyPrinter$)
If LPRINT_StartDoc("Printing a RC-Task")
LPRINT_Print(Chr(27) + "E") ; PCL reset for HP Printers
LPRINT_PrintN("Hello World!")
LPRINT_NewPage()
LPRINT_EndDoc()
EndIf
LPRINT_ClosePrinter()
EndIf</lang>
REXX
There is no direct way for REXX programs to write to the printer, but
a shell command could be used.
In DOS (or under Windows):
<lang rexx>
str='Hello World'
'@ECHO' str ">PRN"
</lang>
Tcl
Unix
<lang tcl>exec lp << "Hello World!"</lang> <lang tcl>set f [open |lp w] puts $f "Hello World!" close $f</lang>
Windows
<lang tcl>set f [open prn w] puts $f "Hello World!" close $f</lang>
UNIX Shell
<lang bash>echo 'Hello World!'|lp</lang>
Alternately, there are the character devices /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1, /dev/lpN and so on which correspond to line printers (if there are any attached to the system). Data written to these devices is sent to attached printers.
<lang bash>echo 'Hello World' > /dev/lp0</lang>