Re: Printing from cygwin?

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

Patience, please...  There is an LPRng package on the way.
	Igor

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ajay Simha wrote:

> On Fri Feb 28 14:12:41 2003, Bakken, Luke wrote:
> > Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin
> > on a fresh win install.
>
> I did get this and did a make install but it does not come with lpd does it?
> Any place which lists details of how to get it working in cygwin env?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -ajay
> >
> > 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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