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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:52:14 -0500
From: Ajay Simha <asimha AT cisco DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Printing from cygwin?
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On Thu Feb 27 15:53:59 2003, Rick Rankin wrote:
> Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in
> C:\WINNT\system32.

Try /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr -S server -P printer filename

it worked for me.

-ajay
> 
> --Rick
> --- Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com> wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with cygwin lpr printing to my default Win2k printer.
> > A search of the archives revealed many mailings from people who
> > similarly could not print using the cygwin lpr, but I couldn't find any
> > stories of "success."
> > 
> > I invoke:
> > 
> > lpr -P\\\\server\\printer file
> > 
> > Printer is considered by Win2k to be a network printer.
> > 
> > Regardless of the type of file I send, I get the same error reported by
> > lpr from (apparantly) Win2k about "incorrect datatype."
> > 
> > 
> > 
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