Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:01:01 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Brian Keener Cc: cygwin Subject: Re: Lp/lpr equiv or how do I print Message-ID: <20001006080101.A1021@dothill.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="XgsoQIXtLP59dlD+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:49:38PM -0400 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. --XgsoQIXtLP59dlD+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Brian, On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:49:38PM -0400, Brian Keener wrote: > How do I get something output (namely a source code listing) to the > printer from within cygwin (bash shell) on a Win95 machine. My lpt1 is > being captured by a network printer but when I do a cat filename >lpt1 I > get one just a couple lines of output and then a lot of empty pages and > the couple of lines seem to be missing the carriage returns but have the > line feeds. I have tried looking in the mail archive and haven't found > anything that really helps. Would appreciate any suggestions. PCL Setup: === ===== The following is the setup for PCL printers: I use the combination of a2ps and GhostScript to print to our PCL printers. You can find a2ps and GhostScript at: ftp://ftp.enst.fr/pub/unix/a2ps/a2ps-4.13.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/gs601/gs601w32.exe respectively. IIRC, a2ps builds OOTB -- so do the configure, make, make install thing. GhostScript is already pre-built for Win32 -- so do the point and grunt thing. See the first attachment for my PCL version of lpr -- just put it somewhere in your PATH. You will need to modify GS and Printer to match your environment. The last component of Printer should match your printer name as it is listed in Control Panel/Printers including spaces. Setting -sOutputFile properly is supposed to stop GhostScript from prompting the user for the desired printer. Unfortunately no matter what I specify for the -sOutputFile option, gswin32c prompts for the printer even though I only have one defined printer. Sigh... PostScript Setup: ========== ===== The following is the setup for PostScript printers: I also use the combination of a2ps and Microsoft TCP/IP Printing to print to our Postscript printers. Build and install a2ps. Use Control Panel/Network/Services/Add... to install Microsoft TCP/IP Printing. See the second attachment for my PostScript version of lpr -- just put it somewhere in your PATH. You will need to modify Server and Printer to match your environment. Print Command: ===== ======= Printing is as simple as: $ a2ps foo.c Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com --XgsoQIXtLP59dlD+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=lpr #! /bin/bash GS=/mnt/d/Program\ Files/Aladdin/gs6.01/bin/gswin32c Printer='\\spool\HP LaserJet 3100' "$GS" -sDEVICE=mswinpr2 -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r600 -dSAFER -sOutputFile="$Printer" -q -_ --XgsoQIXtLP59dlD+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=lpr #!/bin/bash Server=prodserv Printer=eng-duplex ProgramName=$(basename $0) WinDir=$(cygpath -u $WINDIR) Lpr=$WinDir/system32/lpr TempFile=/tmp/$ProgramName.$$ WinTempFile=$(cygpath -w $TempFile) cat >$TempFile $Lpr -S $Server -P $Printer "$WinTempFile" Status=$? rm -fr $TempFile exit $Status --XgsoQIXtLP59dlD+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com --XgsoQIXtLP59dlD+--