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Re: Is there a 'lpr' for Windows?







Glenn Spell <glenn@gs.fay.nc.us> on 21/02/2000 09:53:14

   Please respond to cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com

   To:  cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
   cc:   (bcc: Stephane Decrauzat/Intl/Conexant)
   Subject:     Re: Is there a 'lpr' for Windows?



   On 20 Feb 2000 around 5:20PM (-0600) Ajit George wrote:

   > > You can change the command Xemacs uses to print by setting the
   > > elisp variable lpr-command.  I don't know what the appropriate
   > > command would be.
   >
   > cat >> lpt1
   >

In case you want to use a network printer, you can:
leave lpr-command as "" and setq printer-name as "//host/printer"
This works for Emacs 20.5.1. I hope it also works for XEmacs.

   > fmt -s -w63 | pr -f -h "" -l 59 -o 10 -w63 >> lpt1
   >
   > In addition to /dev/lpt1-3, Cygwin also includes /dev/prn.
   >

I use a network printer and do not have the /dev/prn nor /dev/lpt-1-3, how can I
print directly from cygwin bash ?

Cheers

Steph



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