Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/04/14:20:23
Any other thought about printing postscript files from cygwin; still can not print.
Somehow the printer is unknown even with hostname and device name.
Dilip Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:38 PM
To: Lester Ingber; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Printing PostScript file
Lester Ingber wrote:
> Up until about a month ago I was able to send PostScript files to my PC
> network PostScript printer using the -S flag (as on Solaris) to specify
> an IP address, e.g., I used
> lpr -S10.6.18.220 -Pq -ol file.ps
> and it worked great even in batch mode for many files.
>
> Now it seems broken? I get:
> lpr: unknown option -- S
>
> Has the cygwin utility been changed?
Sort of. Unless you were using a custom program, there WAS no cygwin
version of lpr until about a month ago. At that time, a cygwin version
of lpr was added to the cygutils package.
My guess: you were previously using the native windows version of lpr in
C:\WINNT\system32\ and now are using the new cygwin version.
Good things about the cygwin version: understands cygwin paths and
filenames. Bad things: command line options aren't the same -- and I
don't think it can use ip addrs as print destinations. Contributions
welcome.
--Chuck
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