Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/04/14:40:33
The printer is network shared postscript printer. It has no problem printing from windows. Also I ftp'd the ps file on I.B.M. AIX machine and could get the plot by the following command:
lpr -Pps a.ps
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:27 PM
To: Paul Dilip K NPRI; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Printing PostScript file
Did you share it?
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
At 02:19 PM 4/4/2002, Paul Dilip K NPRI wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>--
>Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
>Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
>Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
>FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
>
>--
>Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
>Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
>Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
>FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -