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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:32:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: gilles civario <civario AT mimosa DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: a2ps and printer
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On Mon, 12 May 2003, gilles civario wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 May 2003, gilles civario wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello.
> >>
> >>I've just fond the a2ps-4.2.1 pakage on my favorite repository and
> >>I've tested it. As a fan of a2ps for printing source listings, I'd
> >>already installed the version 4.13 on my machine. And with an very
> >>dirty hack, I managed to use a samba-shared network printer with it.
> >>If somebody cares about it, here is a diff between the initial version
> >>of the file <root>/etc/a2ps-site.cfg and my new one :
> >>
> >>$ diff a2ps-site.cfg.init a2ps-site.cfg
> >>41c41
> >>< DefaultPrinter: | #{lp.default}
> >>---
> >>
> >>>DefaultPrinter: | cat > /tmp/foo.ps ;cd /tmp; /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr -S mimosa -P glaieul foo.ps ; rm foo.ps
> >>
> >>48c48
> >>< UnknownPrinter: | #{lp} #o
> >>---
> >>
> >>>UnknownPrinter: | cat > /tmp/foo.ps ;cd /tmp; /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr -S mimosa -P #o foo.ps ; rm foo.ps
> >>
> >>Where mimosa is the name of the network print server and glaieul is
> >>the name of the default printer.
> >>I suppose there is a more elegant way to do this, but this is the only
> >>one I've found.
> >>
> >>Regards.
> >>Gilles.
> >
> >
> > Gilles,
> >
> > Any particular reason "a2ps -P //mimosa/glaieul" doesn't work?  Something
> > like that (with a possible substitution of '/' by '\') worked for me at
> > some point.  Unfortunately, I'm not able to verify this just now, but if
> > it doesn't work for you, I can send a follow-up later with the exact
> > invocation (when I'm at a machine that has a shared printer)...
> >       Igor
>
> I've never thought about this.
> Ok, let's try (sorry for the french messages) :
>
> $ /bin/a2ps -P //mimosa/glaieul gettime.c
> [gettime.c (C): 1 page on 1 sheet]
> lpr: can't open '//mimosa/glaieul' for writing
> lpr: Le nom de l'imprimante n'est pas valide.
>
> a2ps: received signal 13: Broken pipe
> $
>
> => no output on the printer
>
> Nevertheless, with the classical cp methode, it works
> $ cp gettime.c //mimosa/glaieul
> $
>
> => a print lp-style
>
> With a little bit of verbosity :
>
> $ /bin/a2ps --verbose=files -P //mimosa/glaeuil gettime.c
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/ppd/level1.ppd)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/ppd/level1.ppd'
> End of PPD file `/usr/share/a2ps/ppd/level1.ppd'.
> Loading map file `/usr/share/a2ps/encoding/encoding.map'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/encoding/encoding.map)
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/encoding/iso1.edf)
> Loading map file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map)
> Outputing file bw.pro
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/ps/bw.pro)
> Including file 'base.ps' upon request given in '/usr/share/a2ps/ps/bw.pro':31
> Outputing file base.ps
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/ps/base.ps)
> Including file 'a2ps.hdr' upon request given in '/usr/share/a2ps/ps/bw.pro':32
> Outputing file a2ps.hdr
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/ps/a2ps.hdr)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrr.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrr.afm)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrro.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrro.afm)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrb.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrb.afm)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/phvr.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/phvr.afm)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/phvb.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/phvb.afm)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/ptmr.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/ptmr.afm)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/psyr.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/psyr.afm)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrbo.afm'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/afm/pcrbo.afm)
> Loading sheets map `/usr/share/a2ps/sheets/sheets.map'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/sheets/sheets.map)
> Getting ready to print file `gettime.c', with command `c'
> r-fopen (/usr/share/a2ps/sheets/c.ssh)
> Parsing file `/usr/share/a2ps/sheets/c.ssh'
> perl-open (|\040\040lpr\040\040-P\040//mimosa/glaeuil)
> w-popen (lpr  -P //mimosa/glaeuil)
> lpr: can't open '//mimosa/glaeuil' for writing
> lpr: Le nom de l'imprimante n'est pas valide.
>
> a2ps: received signal 13: Broken pipe
> $
>
> Any idea ?
> Thanks.
> Gilles.

Gilles,

I'm getting the same message ("lpr: The printer name is invalid") for the
//server/printer syntax.  However, I've just verified that the
'\\\\server\\printer' syntax works for me (i.e., use backslashes, and
escape them *twice*).  Hope this helps,
	Igor
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