> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:39 PM > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > > According to the documentation, the following should print on the > > default printer: > > > > bash$ cat myfile.txt > PRN > > > > What I find is that a new file is created named "PRN". > > Known problem. There's a patch pending for this -- once it's checked in, > this functionality should be available again. Until then, use lpr from > the cygutils package... > > > Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the double-slash > > form used in Windows. Thus the following should work: > > > > bash$ cat myfile.txt > //Dc1irv/laser1 > > > > This returns: > > > > bash: //Dc1irv/laser1: No such host or network path
According to: $ lpr --help this should work. Do you have this printer visible when you use Explorer \\Dc1irv ? > Nope, that shouldn't work. I don't think you can redirect output to a > printer name even from the Windows console, much less from Cygwin. In > any case, Cygwin doesn't treat printer shares as devices. Ehrm? =) I've proven this to be wrong... below. > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? > > Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "enscript". > Igor The last two assumes you have a PS printer - I believe... Below: $p is a plain old 'HP Laser Jet 6' shared on 'f1' $ p="//f1/f1_lj6"; \ u2d ~/.bash_logout; \ cat ~/.bash_logout >$p; \ d2u ~/.bash_logout; \ echo -en >$p "\r\n\f" # The printer produces a paper w the text in courier. # yet another way... $ lpr -d //f1/f1_lj6 <~/.bash_logout $ echo -en >//f1/f1_lj6 "\r\n\f" NOTE: The last "echo" is _necessary_ in both cases. > > BTW: uname -a returns: > > > > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 jackal 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown > > unknown Cygwin $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 P450 1.5.10s(0.115/4/2) 20040519 13:51:37 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Hmm... I have a few days earlier version of the dll (a snapshot). If the above doesn't help; check http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ - unpack one of the cygwin1-* things w bunzip, and move it in place while _no cygwin tasks_ are running. Hmm... proofreading? Nah, that's for cowards! ;-) /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E --76--> ** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
