Parallel port device in cygwin

[Tony Arnold]

I've been trying out Luke Bakken's port of LPRng with a local printer
connected to the parallel port. In the printcap file, I've tried setting the
device name to PRN, but lpd objects to it being non absolute path name, I also
tried setting it to /PRN, but that seems to cause lpd to hang. Luke suggests
cygwin needs the LPT1 port available as a /dev/lpxx simulated device, but I'm
wondering if there is another way, such as symlink from /dev/lp to PRN?

Thoughts and comments welcome.

Regards,
Tony.
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