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RE: Printing from cygwin?


Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin
on a fresh win install.

If your printer is lpr compatible you can get LPRng from www.lprng.com -
I did the initial porting and as far as I know it still should compile
"out of the box" with the following settings:

./configure --with-userid=18 --with-groupid=18 --disable-setuid

Let me know if you have any problems.
Luke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Rankin [mailto:rick_rankin at yahoo dot com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: Printing from cygwin?
> 
> 
> Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in
> C:\WINNT\system32.
> 
> --Rick
> --- Charles Krug <charles at pentek dot com> wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with cygwin lpr printing to my default 
> Win2k printer.
> > A search of the archives revealed many mailings from people who
> > similarly could not print using the cygwin lpr, but I 
> couldn't find any
> > stories of "success."
> > 
> > I invoke:
> > 
> > lpr -P\\\\server\\printer file
> > 
> > Printer is considered by Win2k to be a network printer.
> > 
> > Regardless of the type of file I send, I get the same error 
> reported by
> > lpr from (apparantly) Win2k about "incorrect datatype."
> > 
> > 
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