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RE: Printing under Cygwin on W2K


Thanks for the quick response!

Chris Carlson
iStor Networks, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:39 AM
To: Chris Carlson
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote:

> According to the documentation, the following should print on the
> default printer:
>
>         bash$  cat myfile.txt > PRN
>
> What I find is that a new file is created named "PRN".

Known problem.  There's a patch pending for this -- once it's checked
in,
this functionality should be available again.  Until then, use lpr from
the cygutils package...

> Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the
double-slash
> form used in Windows.  Thus the following should work:
>
>         bash$  cat myfile.txt > //Dc1irv/laser1
>
> This returns:
>
>         bash: //Dc1irv/laser1: No such host or network path

Nope, that shouldn't work.  I don't think you can redirect output to a
printer name even from the Windows console, much less from Cygwin.  In
any case, Cygwin doesn't treat printer shares as devices.

> So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin?

Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "enscript".
	Igor

> BTW: uname -a returns:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 jackal 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chris Carlson
> iStor Networks, Inc.

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