On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:03:56PM -0500, Charles Krug wrote: > I'm having trouble with cygwin lpr printing to my default Win2k printer. > A search of the archives revealed many mailings from people who > similarly could not print using the cygwin lpr, but I couldn't find any > stories of "success." > > I invoke: > > lpr -P\\\\server\\printer file > > Printer is considered by Win2k to be a network printer. > > Regardless of the type of file I send, I get the same error reported by > lpr from (apparantly) Win2k about "incorrect datatype." >
Probably a fair sight more useful if I post the actual error message: lpr: StartDocPrinter error lpr: The specified datatype is invalid Sorry about that Charles -- Charles Krug, Jr. Systems Engineer Pentek Corp 1 Park Way Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 -- 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/
