Re: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Steven, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. By keeping your replies on the list, you have access to the combined expertise of the list, which is larger than that of any one person. It also saves the questions and the answers in the web archives, s

Re: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Steven, Replies inline below. On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Steven Read wrote: > Is there a "secret handshake" for http://... style printers? My printer > is an IPP connection and lpr gives me an error message saying it cannot > find http:\123.456.789.123:80\ipp. I have tried several different > combinati

Re: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-07 Thread Steven Read
Is there a "secret handshake" for http://... style printers? My printer is an IPP connection and lpr gives me an error message saying it cannot find http:\123.456.789.123:80\ipp. I have tried several different combinations of forward and back slashes but to no avail. I am running Cygwin 1.5.9(0

RE: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-04 Thread John Morrison
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? > > > > > > Either "lpr" or,

Re: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > [snip] > > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? > > > > Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "ensc

PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-04 Thread Olaf Föllinger
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > > Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the double-slash > > form used in Windows. Thus the following should work: > > > > bash$ cat myfile.txt > //Dc1irv/l

Re: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-03 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:39 PM 6/3/2004, you wrote: >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 p

RE: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Carlson
It made me dig a bit deeper into the problem. Chris Carlson iStor Networks, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Printing under Cygwin on W

RE: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-03 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> 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 na

RE: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Carlson
Thanks for the quick response! Chris Carlson iStor Networks, Inc. -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:39 AM To: Chris Carlson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Printing under Cygwin on W2K On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris

Re: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
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

Printing under Cygwin on W2K

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Carlson
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". Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the double-slash form used in Windows. Thus the following should