Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/13/09:34:15
On Tue, 13 May 2003, gilles civario wrote:
> > Gilles,
> >
> > I'm getting the same message ("lpr: The printer name is invalid") for the
> > //server/printer syntax. However, I've just verified that the
> > '\\\\server\\printer' syntax works for me (i.e., use backslashes, and
> > escape them *twice*). Hope this helps,
> > Igor
>
> Igor,
> I'd checked this syntax too. And the anther is :
>
> $ file gettime.c
> gettime.c: ASCII C program text
> $ lpr -P \\\\mimosa\\glaieul gettime.c
> lpr: StartDocPrinter error
> lpr: Le type de donne spcifi n'est pas valide.
Gilles,
No, no, no. You didn't read what I said carefully. I said the
backslashes have to be escaped *twice*! You missed the single quotes.
The correct syntax would be
$ lpr -P '\\\\mimosa\\glaieul' gettime.c
(note the quotes). That's what worked for me, and should work for you as
well. Alternatively,
$ lpr -P \\\\\\\\mimosa\\\\glaieul gettime.c
should also work.
> $ unix2dos gettime.c
> gettime.c: done.
> $ file gettime.c
> gettime.c: ASCII C program text, with CRLF line terminators
> $ lpr -P \\\\mimosa\\glaieul gettime.c
> lpr: StartDocPrinter error
> lpr: Le type de donne spcifi n'est pas valide.
>
> While tracing the process with strace, I seen this :
>
> 295 107178 [main] lpr 1428 fhandler_disk_file::open: 1 = fhandler_disk_file::open (d:\civario\tmp\gettime.c, 0x0)
> 293 107471 [main] lpr 1428 open: 3 = open (gettime.c, 0x0)
> 231 107702 [main] lpr 1428 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: _cygwin_istext_for_stdio (3)
> 231 107933 [main] lpr 1428 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: _cifs: get_*_binary
> 3195 111128 [main] lpr 1428 writev: writev (2, 0x22E420, 1)
> 400 111528 [main] lpr 1428 fhandler_console::write: 22E4B0, 5
> 245 111773 [main] lpr 1428 fhandler_console::write: at 108(l) state is 0
> lpr: 347 112120 [main] lpr 1428 fhandler_console::write: 5 = write_console (,..5)
> 254 112374 [main] lpr 1428 writev: 5 = write (2, 0x22E420, 1), errno 0
> 248 112622 [main] lpr 1428 writev: writev (2, 0x22E440, 1)
> 236 112858 [main] lpr 1428 fhandler_console::write: 22E4D0, 21
> 225 113083 [main] lpr 1428 fhandler_console::write: at 83(S) state is 0
> StartDocPrinter error 310 113393 [main] lpr 1428 fhandler_console::write: 21 = write_console (,..21)
>
> I think (but I may be wrong) that the text file is seen as a
> binary one by lpr.
That shouldn't matter. The lpr you're using is smart enough not to care
too much.
> As shown by cygcheck, all the drives are mount in binmode.
>
> C:\cygwin / system binmode
> C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode
> C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts system binmode
> . /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive
>
> Lpr lives in /usr/bin/lpr.exe and I don't know where it comes from.
>
> Gilles
That lpr comes from cygutils, but even the windows one should work in this
case.
Igor
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