Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Tony Arnold" To: Subject: Parallel port device in cygwin Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:27:57 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal X-Authenticated-Sender: Anthony C Arnold, Tony Arnold from aca-vnt.mcc.ac.uk (acavnt) [130.88.201.150] X-Authenticated-From: Tony.Arnold@man.ac.uk I've been trying out Luke Bakken's port of LPRng with a local printer connected to the parallel port. In the printcap file, I've tried setting the device name to PRN, but lpd objects to it being non absolute path name, I also tried setting it to /PRN, but that seems to cause lpd to hang. Luke suggests cygwin needs the LPT1 port available as a /dev/lpxx simulated device, but I'm wondering if there is another way, such as symlink from /dev/lp to PRN? Thoughts and comments welcome. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Deputy to the Head of COS Division, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- 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/