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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:55:10 -0500 From: Ajay Simha To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Printing from cygwin? Message-ID: <20030228235510.GE3236@cisco.com> References: <407DF7D68DD30440B5CEB70ED234D1CF02BD756D AT excuswa100 DOT americas DOT unity> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <407DF7D68DD30440B5CEB70ED234D1CF02BD756D@excuswa100.americas.unity> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri Feb 28 14:12:41 2003, Bakken, Luke wrote: > Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin > on a fresh win install. I did get this and did a make install but it does not come with lpd does it? Any place which lists details of how to get it working in cygwin env? Thanks, -ajay > > If your printer is lpr compatible you can get LPRng from www.lprng.com - > I did the initial porting and as far as I know it still should compile > "out of the box" with the following settings: > > ./configure --with-userid=18 --with-groupid=18 --disable-setuid > > Let me know if you have any problems. > Luke > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Rankin [mailto:rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com] > > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:54 PM > > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > > Subject: Re: Printing from cygwin? > > > > > > Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in > > C:\WINNT\system32. > > > > --Rick > > --- Charles Krug 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." > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/