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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:39:24 -0500
From: Paul Dilip K NPRI <PaulDK AT Npt DOT NUWC DOT Navy DOT Mil>
Subject: RE: Printing PostScript file
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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The printer is network shared postscript printer. It has no problem printing from windows. Also I ftp'd the ps file on I.B.M. AIX machine and could get the plot by the following command:
lpr -Pps a.ps

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:27 PM
To: Paul Dilip K NPRI; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Printing PostScript file


Did you share it?

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At 02:19 PM 4/4/2002, Paul Dilip K NPRI wrote:
>Any other thought about printing postscript files from cygwin; still can not print.
>Somehow the printer is unknown even with hostname and device name.
>
>Dilip Paul
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
>Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:38 PM
>To: Lester Ingber; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: Printing PostScript file
>
>
>
>
>Lester Ingber wrote:
>
> > Up until about a month ago I was able to send PostScript files to my PC
> > network PostScript printer using the -S flag (as on Solaris) to specify
> > an IP address, e.g., I used
> > lpr -S10.6.18.220 -Pq -ol file.ps
> > and it worked great even in batch mode for many files.
> > 
> > Now it seems broken?  I get:
> > lpr: unknown option -- S
> > 
> > Has the cygwin utility been changed?
>
>
>Sort of.  Unless you were using a custom program, there WAS no cygwin 
>version of lpr until about a month ago.  At that time, a cygwin version 
>of lpr was added to the cygutils package.
>
>My guess: you were previously using the native windows version of lpr in 
>C:\WINNT\system32\ and now are using the new cygwin version.
>
>Good things about the cygwin version: understands cygwin paths and 
>filenames.  Bad things: command line options aren't the same -- and I 
>don't think it can use ip addrs as print destinations.  Contributions 
>welcome.
>
>--Chuck
>
>
>
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