The printer is network shared postscript printer. It has no problem printing from windows. Also I ftp'd the ps file on I.B.M. AIX machine and could get the plot by the following command: lpr -Pps a.ps
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:27 PM To: Paul Dilip K NPRI; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Printing PostScript file Did you share it? Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 02:19 PM 4/4/2002, Paul Dilip K NPRI wrote: >Any other thought about printing postscript files from cygwin; still can not print. >Somehow the printer is unknown even with hostname and device name. > >Dilip Paul > >-----Original Message----- >From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:38 PM >To: Lester Ingber; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Printing PostScript file > > > > >Lester Ingber wrote: > > > Up until about a month ago I was able to send PostScript files to my PC > > network PostScript printer using the -S flag (as on Solaris) to specify > > an IP address, e.g., I used > > lpr -S10.6.18.220 -Pq -ol file.ps > > and it worked great even in batch mode for many files. > > > > Now it seems broken? I get: > > lpr: unknown option -- S > > > > Has the cygwin utility been changed? > > >Sort of. Unless you were using a custom program, there WAS no cygwin >version of lpr until about a month ago. At that time, a cygwin version >of lpr was added to the cygutils package. > >My guess: you were previously using the native windows version of lpr in >C:\WINNT\system32\ and now are using the new cygwin version. > >Good things about the cygwin version: understands cygwin paths and >filenames. Bad things: command line options aren't the same -- and I >don't think it can use ip addrs as print destinations. Contributions >welcome. > >--Chuck > > > >-- >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/ -- 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/
