Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:24:53 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dr=2E_Olaf_F=F6llinger?= To: shital Desai , cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: rpollard@apple.com Subject: Re: Regarding Printing in Cygwin Message-ID: <20030425102452.GB2036@nbof> Mail-Followup-To: shital Desai , cygwin@cygwin.com, rpollard@apple.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Request-PGP: http://www.foellinger.de/olaf.foellinger.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:38:04PM +0530, shital Desai wrote: > Dear Mr. Oraf Foellinger, Robert Polard, > The issue of printing in cygwin has been addressed, but I would like to > share my observation with you.I have been able to find lpr command at > /usr/bin directory with a lprsetup.sh BASH script in the same path. When I > run the command, it gives me an error saying > lpr: can't open 'prn' for writing > lpr: the printer name is invalid Check your PATH. I assume the windows lpr command is before the cygwin lpr command on the PATH. Here lprsetup.sh did run and created a printcap file. Please discuss on the list with a copy to me so that other users can share their experiences. Gruss Olaf Föllinger -- Olaf Föllinger Berater S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG Alt-Moabit 91a D-10559 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 390722 -291 Fax: +49 30 390722 -222 Mobil: +49 173 6227080 http://www.sesa.de mailto: Olaf.Foellinger@sesa.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/