From:	vischne AT ibm DOT net
Subject:	Using mount consistently to print
28 Oct 1997 04:21:37 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199710281146.LAA103478.cygnus.gnu-win32@out1.ibm.net>
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To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

As long as you can do things like mount /dev/cdrom under cygwin's
bash shell, how about a mount /dev/lp option?

That way, Unix lpr can be used to print, and even do graphics printing
using the gswin.exe postscript interpreter.

You might check this out on your system, but I think cygwin bash permits
a call of the form:

	cat textfile > prn

Was this a loophole that you overlooked in the quest to make bash
impractical for Windows?

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