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 Message-ID: <1685.130.240.136.220.1127488066.squirrel@pinus> In-Reply-To: <20050923123423.59754.qmail@web33907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050923123423 DOT 59754 DOT qmail AT web33907 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:07:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: fopen cannot open device name for network printer in windows xp From: "Bengt-Arne Fjellner" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The One skrev: > Hi, > > I've a c program that prints to network printer by > getting a filehandle from > fopen("\\computer1\printer1", "wb"). That has always Try with: fopen("\\\\computer1\\printer1", "wb"). Instead. > worked on Windows 95, 98 & 2000. > > When it's running under windows xp (sp1 or sp2), fopen > returns a NULL. Has any one had a similar problem? Is > there a solution to this? > > Thank you > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Bengt-Arne Fjellner Luleå University Skellefteå Sweden -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/