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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:36:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section
To: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > > >backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped
> > > >from shells such as bash (\\\\COMPUTER\\Printer Share).  If you have a
> > > 
> > > Rather than talk about escaping backslashes, why not just use
> > > //computer/printer ?
> > > 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:52:23PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote:
> 
> > OK, so I need to read *all* my messages before replying...
> 
> That's alright, I didn't just miss this one, but the whole updated
> lpr. I saw some posts in the last couple of months about updating your 
> lpr in cygutils, but I thought it was just something still planned for 
> the future. Hannu telling me to check the man page clued me in. It
> had all the information I really needed.
> 
> Here's the update:
> 
> --BEGIN
> There are several options for printing from Cygwin, including the
> lpr found in cygutils (not to be confused with the native Windows
> lpr.exe). The easiest way to use cygutils' lpr is to specify a default
> device name in the PRINTER environment variable. You may also specify
> a device on the command line with the -d or -P options, which will
> override the environment variable setting. A device name may be a UNC
> path (\\server_name\printer_name), a reserved DOS device name (prn,
> lpt1), or a local port name that is mapped to a printer share. Note that
> forward slashes may be used in a UNC path (//server_name/printer_name),
> which is helpful when using lpr from a shell that uses the backslash as
> an escape character. No formatting is done; data is sent raw. If your
> printer supports PostScript, packages such as a2ps and enscript can
> prepare text files for printing. The ghostscript package also provides
> some translation from PostScript to various native printer languages
> (a native Windows application for printing PostScript, gsprint, is
> available from the GhostScript website).
> --END
> 

This looks OK to me.

--Rick

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