Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:54:04 +0930 From: Brian Salter-Duke To: fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Printing locally Message-ID: <20020304095404.A1512@BSALTERDUKE1> References: <000501c1c2a1$26596300$6fc82486 AT medschool DOT dundee DOT ac DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000501c1c2a1$26596300$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk>; from fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Mar 2002 00:25:42.0589 (UTC) FILETIME=[1E7566D0:01C1C313] On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -0000, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote: > What about this? Any good? > If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try > cp a.txt prn > OR > cat a.txt > prn > and if a.txt is Unix-terminated, try > cat a.txt | unix2dos > prn > Fergus This was a good suggestion but it still does not work. It just does nothing as does directing the output to PRINT or LPT1. The file a.txt if put into Notepad either in dos or unix format prints fine. Cheers, Brian. -- Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) b_duke AT octa4 DOT net DOT au Honorary Fellow in Chemistry, NT University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. Phone 08-89881600. Fax 08-89881302. http://lacebark.ntu.edu.au/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/