Printing from cygwin?

[Rick Rankin]

Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in
C:\WINNT\system32.

--Rick
--- Charles Krug <charles@pentek.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with cygwin lpr printing to my default Win2k printer.
> A search of the archives revealed many mailings from people who
> similarly could not print using the cygwin lpr, but I couldn't find any
> stories of "success."
> 
> I invoke:
> 
> lpr -P\\\\server\\printer file
> 
> Printer is considered by Win2k to be a network printer.
> 
> Regardless of the type of file I send, I get the same error reported by
> lpr from (apparantly) Win2k about "incorrect datatype."
> 
> 
> 
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