On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:40:47PM -0500, David Means wrote: > I don't have my cygwin machine handy, so I've got to ask: > > how about this: > > cat a.txt > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1 > > that's probably not the ultimate solution, but does it work?
No. It reports nothing and does nothing. There is nothing in any printer queue. PRINT a.txt reports that <full path>/a.txt is currently being printed, but again nothing happens and there is nothing in the queues. Thanks for the suggestion. I remain very puzzled. Brian. > David > > > > On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 21:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:45:57AM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: > > > Brian: > > > > > > I used to be able to print from cygwin by refering to /dev/lpt1 > > > > > > -paul mcferrin > > > > There is no /dev directory! "which lpt1" gives "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1", > > but typing "lpt1 file" gives permission denied and looking in WINNT with > > Windows Explorer I do not find it. I'm even more puzzled. > > > > Cheers, Brian. > > > > [my original query about how to print to a local printer deleted.] > > > > -- > > 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/ > -- > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, > a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- 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/
