From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29088 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2002 18:04:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28949 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2002 18:04:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc54.attbi.com) (216.148.227.87) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 18:04:26 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu ([24.98.131.105]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020227180425.UGZP1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@ece.gatech.edu>; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:04:25 +0000 Message-ID: <3C7D2018.20704@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:27:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Garcia-Fontes CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Parallel Port LPRng References: <20020227161745.A511@upf.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg01330.txt.bz2 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? > > -- 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/