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: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:40:48 +0200 From: Olaf =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6llinger?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K Message-ID: <20040604074048.GA2460@sesa.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <7D036BD3216A084DB1BD9D62BCEAF29049A414@mail1irv.inside.istor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Request-PGP: http://www.foellinger.de/olaf.foellinger.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- Olaf Föllinger Senior Consultant IT S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG -- 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/