I don't have my cygwin machine handy, so I've got to ask:

how about this:

cat a.txt > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1

that's probably not the ultimate solution, but does it work?

David



On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 21:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:45:57AM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> > Brian:
> > 
> > I used to be able to print from cygwin by refering to /dev/lpt1
> > 
> > -paul mcferrin
> 
> There is no /dev directory! "which lpt1" gives "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1",
> but typing "lpt1 file" gives permission denied and looking in WINNT with
> Windows Explorer I do not find it. I'm even more puzzled.
> 
> Cheers, Brian.
> 
> [my original query about how to print to a local printer deleted.]
>  
> -- 
>            Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) b_duke@octa4.net.au  
> Honorary Fellow in Chemistry, NT University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.
>  Phone 08-89881600.    Fax 08-89881302.    http://lacebark.ntu.edu.au/
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
-- 

No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However,
a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.