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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:31:52 -0700 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <20030730181807.56965.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com> <20030730214151.A8540@ns1.iocc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, zh In-Reply-To: <20030730214151.A8540@ns1.iocc.com> Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > --BEGIN > There are several options for printing from Cygwin, including the > native Windows lpr.exe, and the simlple lpr found in cygutils. The > cygutils version will print to the printer definted in your PRINTER > environment variable. It also accepts network printer names in > backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped > from shells such as bash (\\\\COMPUTER\\Printer Share). If you have a > command in a script such that it may be processed twice by the shell, > you may need to double-escape the name (\\\\\\\\COMPUTER\\\\Printer > Share). Note that lpr does no conversion of data; the printer must > recognize the format of the data that is sent to it. Failing to do so > will make the printer do random things, hang, or ignore the input. If > your printer supports PostScript, packages such as a2ps and enscript > can prepare text files for printing. The ghostscript package also > provides some translation from PostScript to various native printer > languages. > --END Why not just use //COMPUTER/Printer Share and avoid the issue entirely? -- 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/