Will lpr be updated to enable printing to a postscript printer?

[Charles Wilson]

holmberg@tiac.net wrote:

> Gilles Civario in his 5/14 posting (Subject: Re: a2ps and 
> printer) indicated a simple lpr.c patch that enabled printing to 
> a postscript printer via cygwin lpr (which tends to be in the 
> path for utilities such as a2ps or enscript).  
> 
> Will this patch migrate into a future release of Cygutils? (The 
> change sets the data type code to "RAW" instead of "raw" - a 
> simple change, but the impact on non-postscript printers may 
> need to be checked).

The lpr maintainer (which is not me; I maintain cygutils as a whole) has 
sent me a complete rewrite of that program.  It's been integrated into 
my test builds, seems to work okay (I used it to send a .ps to my 
spooler), and has been checked into CVS.

I'm waiting another week or two for some other issues to settle down 
before issuing a new version of cygutils -- but you can check out the 
CVS and build it yourself if you wish.

export CVSROOT=:pserver:sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps
cvs login
<password: anoncvs>
cvs checkout cygutils

Then run bootstrap, configure, make.  (Note: you need all of the 
autoconf, automake, and libtool packages installed to build cygutils)

--Chuck



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