Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 11:11:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Setting default printer in startup scripts Message-ID: <20030521091107.GF30676@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:00:01AM +0100, David Kilroy wrote: > # Define default printer > if [ $OS = Windows_NT ]; then > PRINTER=`regtool get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device'|sed 's?\([^,]*\),.*?\1?g'` > else > PRINTER=`regtool get > '\config\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\Default'` > fi > > Note: I haven't tested the above much. It works on my NT box with a network > printer, and I've verified an ME box has the appropriate registry entry. The backslashes are somewhat dangerous since they get evaluated as special characters. Why not use forward slashes instead? regtool supports them as registry key separator. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/