PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

[Olaf Föllinger <Olaf dot Foellinger at sesa dot de>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote:
> 
> > Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the double-slash
> > form used in Windows.  Thus the following should work:
> >
> >         bash$  cat myfile.txt > //Dc1irv/laser1
> >
> > This returns:
> >
> >         bash: //Dc1irv/laser1: No such host or network path
> 
> Nope, that shouldn't work.  I don't think you can redirect output to a
> printer name even from the Windows console, much less from Cygwin.  In
> any case, Cygwin doesn't treat printer shares as devices.
> 
> > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin?
> 
> Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "enscript".
> 	Igor

lpr works just fine here with a minor problem: 

$ lpr textfile.txt 
lpr: no printer specified

though the printer is specified in /etc/profile. But the printer
variable isn't exported there so lpr cannot find it. Should this be
fixed?

 
Gruss Olaf Föllinger

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Olaf Föllinger
Senior Consultant IT
S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG


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