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access to network printer and com port blocked after setup.exe





I am in the process of documenting a method of creating minimum Cygwin
installation
for our group.  As a result, to identify a base list of packages, I ran
cygcheck -c command
to identify all of my packages.  I noticed from the list that several:

      coreutils
      gettext
      libiconv

were marked as incomplete so I ran setup.exe to re-install them.
Unfortunately, I had several
shells open during the setup process so installation of the latest (1 March
2005) cygwin1.dll
was delayed until reboot. (I did reboot)

The setup,exe run appeared to be successful but after the update, i was
unable to print
to a network printer via lpr or  a2ps. (my setup.exe is dated 21 Jan 2005).

Symptom:

with the environment variable printer set to \\PDX-SRV10\PRN-Copier-B118,
the simple command "lpr" results in the message:

      lpr: printer error: can't open '' for writing: The printer name is
invalid.

I then used setup.exe to re-install all packages in the Base category,
hoping to update everything
at a low level that could have caused the problem.  Nothing changed.  In
fact, I now noticed that
my current project that writes device commands to /dev/ttyS0 now hangs.
Windows can access
COM1: just fine but now, Cygwin can't.

Before I re-install everything, I thought I'd ask here for any suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

I have attached the output of: cygcheck -s -v -r.

Paul

(See attached file: status)

Attachment: status
Description: Binary data

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