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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:40:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Luke Bakken <luke_bakken AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Walter Garcia-Fontes <wgarcia AT upf DOT es>
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Subject: Re: Parallel Port LPRng
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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
>
>
>
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