Can't print because .lnk makes printer name invalid

[Igor Peshansky]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:

> I had our UNIX administrator work on this for a couple of days.  He
> totally reinstalled Cygwin.  The problem still exists.

This has nothing to do with Cygwin -- the link is probably on the server
share...  Can you "ls" it and see what the permissions are?

> However, I created a workaround which may be of benefit to others.
>
> With a postscript file or output from a2ps use this command
>
> cat $i.ps | $HOME/bin/print.pl
>
> and this perl file
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # print.pl: Cygwin print workaround
> use IO::Socket::INET;
> $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new("10.30.16.51:9100")
>   or die "Couldn't Connect to 10.30.16.51 port 9100: $!";
> while (<>) {
>     print $socket "$_\n";
> }
> print "\n";
> exit;

You do realize that this completely bypasses the printer driver and sends
the postscript directly to the printer, right?  If this is what you want,
fine, but I wanted to make sure the caveat was in the archives.
	Igor
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