X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:22:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Rockefeller, Harry" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't print because .lnk makes printer name invalid In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: > I had our UNIX administrator work on this for a couple of days. He > totally reinstalled Cygwin. The problem still exists. This has nothing to do with Cygwin -- the link is probably on the server share... Can you "ls" it and see what the permissions are? > However, I created a workaround which may be of benefit to others. > > With a postscript file or output from a2ps use this command > > cat $i.ps | $HOME/bin/print.pl > > and this perl file > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > # print.pl: Cygwin print workaround > use IO::Socket::INET; > $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new("10.30.16.51:9100") > or die "Couldn't Connect to 10.30.16.51 port 9100: $!"; > while (<>) { > print $socket "$_\n"; > } > print "\n"; > exit; You do realize that this completely bypasses the printer driver and sends the postscript directly to the printer, right? If this is what you want, fine, but I wanted to make sure the caveat was in the archives. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/