From: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: Walter Garcia-Fontes <wgarcia@upf.es>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Parallel Port LPRng
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C7D2018.20704@ece.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020227161745.A511@upf.es>
Take a look at the source code for Rick Rankin's version of lpr. It is
in the cygutils-0.9.9 package.
--Chuck
Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> I've been trying to install Bakkens LPRng port. I can't print to a printer
> attached to the parallel port of my system. There was some discussion on this
> on Nov. 2001:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01015.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01054.html
>
> but the discussion died just there.
>
> I've tried different printcap files such as:
>
> lp
> :lp=/lpt
> :sh
> :mx=0
> :sd=/var/spool/%P
>
> or
>
> lp
> :lp=prt
> :sh
> :mx=0
> :sd=/var/spool/%P
>
> but it doesn't work (lpr and lpd don't produce any error, it's as if the file
> is delivered, but no output comes from the printer).
>
> Anybody has this working on a parallel printer?
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-27 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-27 7:37 Walter Garcia-Fontes
2002-02-27 9:04 ` Luke Bakken
2002-02-27 10:27 ` Charles Wilson [this message]
2002-03-01 4:09 Walter Garcia-Fontes
2002-03-01 7:53 ` Walter Garcia-Fontes
2002-03-01 8:11 ` Walter Garcia-Fontes
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