From: Ben Decker To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <1041978313007072@lycos-europe.com> X-Mailer: LycosMail X-Originating-IP: [62.104.218.70] Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Re: fd_props, what is it? Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:25:13 +0100 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_NextPart_Lycos_0070721041978313_ID" Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --=_NextPart_Lycos_0070721041978313_ID Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > ------- Original Message ------- > > From : sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) > Date : Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:22:33 -0600 (CST) > >> I was wondering *exactly* the same thing, but more from the bash command line. It >> would be nice, for instance, to map /dev/lpt1 to /dev/lp0 and so forth. >> Shell script compatibilty option ;-) > >This would be easy - look in src\libc\dos\io\putpath.c - some are already >mapped. But I wonder if this is the right thing for lpt1 since many >printers are no longer ascii capable (need some windows driver...) No windows driver needed if you get my ghostscript 7.0.5 port from my website. Just need a port to plot to and a printcap interpreter ;-) Servus, Ben When words aren't enough - Vodafone live! A new world of colour, sounds, picture messages and information on your mobile. Click here to find out more. --=_NextPart_Lycos_0070721041978313_ID--