From: Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke@octa4.net.au>
To: fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net <fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Printing locally
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 16:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020304095404.A1512@BSALTERDUKE1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c1c2a1$26596300$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk>; from fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -0000
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -0000, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote:
> What about this? Any good?
> If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try
> cp a.txt prn
> OR
> cat a.txt > prn
> and if a.txt is Unix-terminated, try
> cat a.txt | unix2dos > prn
> Fergus
This was a good suggestion but it still does not work. It just does
nothing as does directing the output to PRINT or LPT1.
The file a.txt if put into Notepad either in dos or unix format prints
fine.
Cheers, Brian.
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2002-03-03 2:50 fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
2002-03-03 16:25 ` Brian Salter-Duke [this message]
2002-03-04 8:26 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-03-05 1:24 ` Brian Salter-Duke
2002-03-05 8:17 ` Rick Rankin
2002-03-05 13:07 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
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2002-03-06 15:03 Heribert Dahms
2002-03-05 15:39 Karl M
2002-03-01 23:23 Brian Salter-Duke
2002-03-01 23:44 ` Paul McFerrin
2002-03-02 18:54 ` Brian Salter-Duke
2002-03-02 20:40 ` David Means
2002-03-03 0:27 ` Brian Salter-Duke
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