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Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User'sGuide section
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
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There are several options for printing from Cygwin, including the
native Windows lpr.exe, and the simlple lpr found in cygutils. The
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.
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Why not just use //COMPUTER/Printer Share and avoid the issue entirely?
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