Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: ics-server.interface-net.com: lbakken owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:40:40 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Bakken X-X-Sender: lbakken@ics-server.interface-net.com Reply-To: luke_bakken@yahoo.com To: Walter Garcia-Fontes cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Parallel Port LPRng In-Reply-To: <20020227161745.A511@upf.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As far as I know, without a /dev/lpt of some sort it won't work with Cygwin for parallel printers. I hope you can get a net card! On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: > I've been trying to install Bakkens LPRng port. I can't print to a printer > attached to the parallel port of my system. There was some discussion on this > on Nov. 2001: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01015.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01054.html > > but the discussion died just there. > > I've tried different printcap files such as: > > lp > :lp=/lpt > :sh > :mx=0 > :sd=/var/spool/%P > > or > > lp > :lp=prt > :sh > :mx=0 > :sd=/var/spool/%P > > but it doesn't work (lpr and lpd don't produce any error, it's as if the file > is delivered, but no output comes from the printer). > > Anybody has this working on a parallel printer? > > -- > Walter Garcia-Fontes > Barcelona, Spain > > > > -- > 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/