Re: printing from within Cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Jason Tishler wrote:

> Igor,
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:59:39PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > 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 use the attached shell script as "lpr" on my home computer with a
> direct or network (i.e., lpd) attached PCL printer.  Note that I'm using
> the Win32 GSView (and GhostScript).
>
> Jason

Jason,
I know GSPrint can work with Windows printers.  It works fine if you only
want to use the windows default printer.  I couldn't, however, get it to
work correctly with the -printer and -query options (well, the -printer
part is mostly shell quoting issues, but the -query just doesn't seem to
work, somehow).  Any insight will be appreciated.  I'm attaching the
script that I currently have.

A question about your script: you're using the '-_' option, which doesn't
seem to be documented on the GSPrint page (
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsprint.htm ).  What exactly does it
do?

I also found this thread extremely interesting and relevant:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01570.html
a2ps seems like the perfect solution for lp/lpr.  Is it ever going to
become a cygwin package (
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg01240.html )?

Thanks,
	Igor
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