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From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: RE: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:07:01 +0100
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> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin?
> > >
> > > Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "enscript".
> > >       Igor
> >
> > lpr works just fine here with a minor problem:
> >
> > $ lpr textfile.txt
> > lpr: no printer specified
> >
> > though the printer is specified in /etc/profile. But the printer
> > variable isn't exported there so lpr cannot find it. Should this be
> > fixed?
>
> Yep, looks like a base-files bug.  /etc/profile should have an "export
> PRINTER" after the definition of "PRINTER".  John?

OK, am playing with updating /etc/profile when it hasn't been
modified.  I'll add the export for the next version.

J.


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