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Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:55:10 -0500
From:	Ajay Simha <asimha AT cisco DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Printing from cygwin?
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On Fri Feb 28 14:12:41 2003, Bakken, Luke wrote:
> Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin
> on a fresh win install.

I did get this and did a make install but it does not come with lpd does it?
Any place which lists details of how to get it working in cygwin env?

Thanks,

-ajay
> 
> If your printer is lpr compatible you can get LPRng from www.lprng.com -
> I did the initial porting and as far as I know it still should compile
> "out of the box" with the following settings:
> 
> ./configure --with-userid=18 --with-groupid=18 --disable-setuid
> 
> Let me know if you have any problems.
> Luke
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Rankin [mailto:rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:54 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: Printing from cygwin?
> > 
> > 
> > Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in
> > C:\WINNT\system32.
> > 
> > --Rick
> > --- Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com> wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble with cygwin lpr printing to my default 
> > Win2k printer.
> > > A search of the archives revealed many mailings from people who
> > > similarly could not print using the cygwin lpr, but I 
> > couldn't find any
> > > stories of "success."
> > > 
> > > I invoke:
> > > 
> > > lpr -P\\\\server\\printer file
> > > 
> > > Printer is considered by Win2k to be a network printer.
> > > 
> > > Regardless of the type of file I send, I get the same error 
> > reported by
> > > lpr from (apparantly) Win2k about "incorrect datatype."
> > > 
> > > 
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