Brian: I used to be able to print from cygwin by refering to /dev/lpt1
-paul mcferrin Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > Gygwin is a great product and it allows me to do much unix work but on > top of windows. I am essentially a unix person. > > Now I am trying to simply print text mutt mail messages to a local > printer plugged into the back of my machine, which is running > Windows2000. I have read the FAQ and searched the mailing list > archives. Most of what I find refers to remote printing or clever stuff > using a2ps etc. My problem is that I do not know how to refer to the > printer. This is probably my lack of knowledge of Win2000. > > Here is the bit in the FAQ:- > > FAQ>Alternatively, on NT, you can use the Windows `print' command. (It does > FAQ>not seem to be available on Win9x.) Type > > FAQ>bash$ print /\? > > FAQ>for usage instructions (note the `?' must be escaped from the shell). > > OK, I do this and get:- > > $ PRINT /\? > Prints a text file. > > PRINT [/D:device] [[drive:][path]filename[...]] > > /D:device Specifies a print device. > > OK, so I have PRINT. If I type "PRINT a.txt" where a.txt is a simple text file, > it says it has printed it, but nothing prints. What does /D:device mean? > I can find nothing to help me on this. > > FAQ>Finally, you can simply `cat' the file to the printer's share name: > > FAQ>bash$ cat myfile > //host/printer > > What does //host/printer mean? I have seen this with remote printing, > but I just want to print to the default printer plugged into the back of > my machine. It is called "CanonBJC-1000SP". How do I refer to it? > > I would much appreciate some help on this point. > > Regards, Brian. > -- > Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Honorary Fellow in Chemistry, NT University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. > Phone 08-89881600. Fax 08-89881302. http://lacebark.ntu.edu.au/ > > -- > 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/ -- NOTE*** This email looks it came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] but in reality it came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you send a reply to this message, it *should* get delivered to the correct place. -- 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/
