Jay Abel wrote:
Apparently
someone started working on lpr, and it does work for local printers,
just doesn't work for network printers.
Say what?
$ which lpr
/usr/bin/lpr
$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/lpr
cygutils-1.3.0-1
$ lpr -P\\\\myserver\\myprinter
/usr/share/ghostscript/8.50/examples/chess.ps
$ lpr -P//myserver/myprinter /usr/share/ghostscript/8.50/examples/chess.ps
Both WJFFM.
From the man page:
SYNOPSIS
lpr [-D] [-d device ] [-h] [-l] [-P device ]
-d device
specifies the device to which to send the output.
-P device
an alias for -d.
DEVICES
A device name may be a UNC path (\\server_name\printer_name), a
reserved DOS device name (e.g., prn, lpt1), or a local port name that
is mapped to a printer share. Note that forward slashes may be used in
a UNC path also (e.g., //server_name/printer_name).
ENVIRONMENT
A default device name may be specified in the PRINTER environment vari-
able. Specifying a device via a -d or -P will override the environment
variable setting.
--
Chuck
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