On 4/13/2012 5:42 PM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
A week ago I was able to print using lpr filename.
But it has been broken for a few days now.
I have been looking at this month's archive and have not seen
any discussion on this.
Before the latest cygutils was released I got an error that said
printer name 'garbage characters' doesn't exist.
After updating to cygutils-1.4.10-1 today the error message has changed (See
below).
I think this is because lpr.cc has long (erroneously) used
cygwin_conv_to_win32_path()
to "convert" an SMB shared printer name (//server/printer) represented
with forward slashes into the same name represented with backslashes. It
may not be true with modern windows, but in the past IIRC the win32
print interface was finicky about that.
However...cygwin_conv_to_win32_path() is really a giant hammer for a
very small nail. Actually, it's the wrong tool entirely, because
$PRINTER='Brother HL-5250DN (direct)'
is not a *path* at all; it's a name.
In the latest cygutils release, I (rather blindly, I admit) replaced the
call to the deprecated cygwin_conv_to_win32_path() function with a call
to the cygwin-1.7-compliant cygwin_create_path(). However, I made two
mistakes:
1) I forgot to use the CCP_RELATIVE conversion flag, so the new call
"absolutized" the printer name, by treating it as a filename in the
current directory -- unless it was of the //server/printer form (which
already looks like an absolute path).
2) I should have simply removed the cygwin_conv_* call, and used the
appropriate tool -- which in this case is to check if the printer name
matches '//server/printer' and ONLY then, simply 'normalize' the slashes
(in case win32 Print still cares about that). (oh, and watch out for
'servers' that look like 'http:' and 'file:'; don't 'normalize' those).
I'll roll out a new -2 release soon.
--
Chuck
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