Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin on a fresh win install.
If your printer is lpr compatible you can get LPRng from www.lprng.com - I did the initial porting and as far as I know it still should compile "out of the box" with the following settings: ./configure --with-userid=18 --with-groupid=18 --disable-setuid Let me know if you have any problems. Luke > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Printing from cygwin? > > > Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in > C:\WINNT\system32. > > --Rick > --- Charles Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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." > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/
