Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

[Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>]

--- Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
> >> > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin
> >> 
> >> > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with
> >> > Windows" section for the User's Guide.
> >> >
> >> > If you'd like to look at it as a web page:
> >> > <http://iocc.com/~joshua/tmp/using-effectively.html>
> >> 
> >> In the next to last paragraph there is a strange thing ;-)
> >>  "Therefore these two types of links differently."
> >
> >Good catch.  
> >
> >> > Some things:
> >> --8<--
> >> > --Documentation of printing is sparse since I don't really do it much.
> >> > Does anyone have extensive documentation of their complex setup?
> >> 
> >>  I'd say stay basic: i.e. tell that:  (This is quickly sribbled text, take
> >> heed!)
> > 
> >OK, here is the updated section:
> >
> >--BEGIN
> >There are several options for printing from Cygwin, including the
> >native Windows lpr.exe, and the simlple lpr found in cygutils.  The
>                                  simple
> >cygutils version will print to the printer definted in your PRINTER
> >environment variable.  It also accepts network printer names in
> >backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped
> >from shells such as bash (\\\\COMPUTER\\Printer Share).  If you have a
> >command in a script such that it may be processed twice by the shell,
> >you may need to double-escape the name (\\\\\\\\COMPUTER\\\\Printer
> >Share).  Note that lpr does no conversion of data; the printer must
> >recognize the format of the data that is sent to it.  Failing to do so
> >will make the printer do random things, hang, or ignore the input.  If
> >your printer supports PostScript, packages such as a2ps and enscript
> >can prepare text files for printing.  The ghostscript package also
> >provides some translation from PostScript to various native printer
> >languages.  --END
> 
> Rather than talk about escaping backslashes, why not just use
> //computer/printer ?
> 

OK, so I need to read *all* my messages before replying...

--Rick

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