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Re: printing from within Cygwin


Tim,

    when I try that with a networked Epson Photo printer to print a simple
text file, I get nothing but a form feed.

    Is this a postscript problem or what, do you think?

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Beuman" <timb@cdvinc.com>
To: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: <Fred_Smith@computrition.com>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:21 PM
Subject: RE: printing from within Cygwin


> I am using "lpr -P \\\\<computer>\\<printer> <file>" to print on a network
> printer.
> I guess the same construct works on a local printer too (using the local
> computer's name)?
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Fred_Smith@computrition.com
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: Rick Rankin
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: printing from within Cygwin
>
>
> Rick, thanks for the reply.
>
> At the moment I'm using NT4.x. In the future it could be nearly anything,
> but I'm going to try to constrain it to nothing less than NT 4.x.
>
> I'm using whatever the lpr command is that I got when I installed cygwin,
I
> don't see any options anywhere to change that. In fact I don't even see
lpr
> listed in any of the cygwin info on the web page, so I'm not at all sure
> what it is.
>
> 'which lpr' shows /usr/bin/lpr
> and "ls -l /usr/bin/lpr" shows lpr.exe to be 7680 bytes.
>
> As to which printer, I'd like to (at a minimum) be able to print to the
> NT-defined default printer, but better would be to figure out how lpr maps
> into windows printers so I can tell it which printer to actually use.
>
> As you may be able to tell I'm not real familiar with either Cygwin, or
> NT., so the NT printing susbystem is largely a black hole to me.
>
>
>
>
>
> Rick Rankin <rick_rankin@yahoo.com> on 08/30/2002 03:21:51 PM
>
> To:   Fred Smith/Computrition, cygwin@cygwin.com
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: printing from within Cygwin
>
>
>
>
> Which lpr are you using, which OS (9x or NT/2K/XP), and are you trying to
> print
> to a locally attached or a network printer?
> --Rick
> --- Fred_Smith@computrition.com wrote:
> > Trying to figure out how to print from a Cywin (console) app.
> >
> > Porting a Linux app to cygwin. On Linux it uses popen() to pipe output
to
> a
> > shellscript which in turn cats its input to lpr (it may do other things,
> > and may transform the data, but that's the ultimate goal).
> >
> > trying to figure out how to do something akin to that under cygwin.
> >
> > Invoking "lpr <filename>" at the command prompt comes back with an error
> > message:
> >
> >      can't open 'prn' for writing.
> >
> >
> > Advice would be appreciated. (I hope you're not going to tell me I need
> to
> > learn all about the innards of windoze printing!)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >
> >
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