Re: Printing locally.

[Paul McFerrin <MailHole at insight dot rr dot com>]

Brian:

I used to be able to print from cygwin by refering to /dev/lpt1

-paul mcferrin

Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> 
> Gygwin is a great product and it allows me to do much unix work but on
> top of windows. I am essentially a unix person.
> 
> Now I am trying to simply print text mutt mail messages to a local
> printer plugged into the back of my machine, which is running
> Windows2000.  I have read the FAQ and searched the mailing list
> archives. Most of what I find refers to remote printing or clever stuff
> using a2ps etc. My problem is that I do not know how to refer to the
> printer. This is probably my lack of knowledge of Win2000.
> 
> Here is the bit in the FAQ:-
> 
> FAQ>Alternatively, on NT, you can use the Windows `print' command. (It does
> FAQ>not seem to be available on Win9x.) Type
> 
> FAQ>bash$ print /\?
> 
> FAQ>for usage instructions (note the `?' must be escaped from the shell).
> 
> OK, I do this and get:-
> 
> $ PRINT /\?
> Prints a text file.
> 
> PRINT [/D:device] [[drive:][path]filename[...]]
> 
>    /D:device   Specifies a print device.
> 
> OK, so I have PRINT. If I type "PRINT a.txt" where a.txt is a simple text file,
> it says it has printed it, but nothing prints. What does /D:device mean?
> I can find nothing to help me on this.
> 
> FAQ>Finally, you can simply `cat' the file to the printer's share name:
> 
> FAQ>bash$ cat myfile > //host/printer
> 
> What does //host/printer mean? I have seen this with remote printing,
> but I just want to print to the default printer plugged into the back of
> my machine. It is called "CanonBJC-1000SP". How do I refer to it?
> 
> I would much appreciate some help on this point.
> 
> Regards, Brian.
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> Honorary Fellow in Chemistry, NT University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.
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