Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/06/04/03:41:05
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote:
>
> > Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the double-slash
> > form used in Windows. Thus the following should work:
> >
> > bash$ cat myfile.txt > //Dc1irv/laser1
> >
> > This returns:
> >
> > bash: //Dc1irv/laser1: No such host or network path
>
> Nope, that shouldn't work. I don't think you can redirect output to a
> printer name even from the Windows console, much less from Cygwin. In
> any case, Cygwin doesn't treat printer shares as devices.
>
> > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin?
>
> Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "enscript".
> Igor
lpr works just fine here with a minor problem:
$ lpr textfile.txt
lpr: no printer specified
though the printer is specified in /etc/profile. But the printer
variable isn't exported there so lpr cannot find it. Should this be
fixed?
Gruss Olaf Föllinger
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Olaf Föllinger
Senior Consultant IT
S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG
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