Re: printing from within Cygwin

[Fred_Smith at computrition dot com]

Igor:

Thanks for all the info! I'll review it all next week after the holiday.

I see you work at Watson labs,... do you by any chance know my brother
(David N. Smith) ???

Thanks again!

Fred




Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> on 08/30/2002 05:59:39 PM

Please respond to cygwin@cygwin.com

To:   Fred Smith/Computrition
cc:   cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject:  Re: printing from within Cygwin




On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 Fred_Smith@computrition.com wrote:
> Trying to figure out how to print from a Cywin (console) app.
>
> Porting a Linux app to cygwin. On Linux it uses popen() to pipe output to
a
> shellscript which in turn cats its input to lpr (it may do other things,
> and may transform the data, but that's the ultimate goal).
>
> trying to figure out how to do something akin to that under cygwin.
>
> Invoking "lpr <filename>" at the command prompt comes back with an error
> message:
>
>      can't open 'prn' for writing.
>
> Advice would be appreciated. (I hope you're not going to tell me I need
to
> learn all about the innards of windoze printing!)
>
> Thanks!
> Fred
No, learning the innards of "windoze" printing is not necessary.  Learning
ghostscript options, however, wouldn't hurt. ;-)
I have been using the attached script for a while.  It works on my current
system (Win2k with gs7.03 installed).  Note the disabled support for
gsprint -- I couldn't get it to work properly.  If anyone can get the
gsprint part to work, please let me know.
I also had to tweak the standard gslp.ps that comes with ghostscript to
allow printing standard input properly (modified script attached).  My
copy of gslp.ps is in /usr/local/bin, and the script expects to find it
there.
The -P option and the $PRINTER variable will recognize windows printer
names (spaces and all).  'ware of the backslashes...  Use the -Q option to
select the printer using the windows printer selection dialog.
     Igor
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