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Subject: Can't print because .lnk makes printer name invalid
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:51:20 -0500
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I had our UNIX administrator work on this for
a couple of days.  He totally reinstalled
Cygwin.  The problem still exists.

However, I created a workaround which may be
of benefit to others.

With a postscript file or output from a2ps
use this command

cat $i.ps | $HOME/bin/print.pl

and this perl file

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# print.pl: Cygwin print workaround
use IO::Socket::INET;
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new("10.30.16.51:9100")
  or die "Couldn't Connect to 10.30.16.51 port 9100: $!";
while (<>) {
    print $socket "$_\n";
}
print "\n";
exit;

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