As far as I know, without a /dev/lpt of some sort it won't work with Cygwin for parallel printers. I hope you can get a net card!
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: > I've been trying to install Bakkens LPRng port. I can't print to a printer > attached to the parallel port of my system. There was some discussion on this > on Nov. 2001: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01015.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01054.html > > but the discussion died just there. > > I've tried different printcap files such as: > > lp > :lp=/lpt > :sh > :mx=0 > :sd=/var/spool/%P > > or > > lp > :lp=prt > :sh > :mx=0 > :sd=/var/spool/%P > > but it doesn't work (lpr and lpd don't produce any error, it's as if the file > is delivered, but no output comes from the printer). > > Anybody has this working on a parallel printer? > > -- > Walter Garcia-Fontes > Barcelona, Spain > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
