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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:06:16 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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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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Take a look at the source code for Rick Rankin's version of lpr.  It is 
in the cygutils-0.9.9 package.

--Chuck


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?
> 
> 



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