--- Paul Dilip K NPRI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other thought about printing postscript files from cygwin; still can not > print. > Somehow the printer is unknown even with hostname and device name. > > Dilip Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:38 PM > To: Lester Ingber; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Printing PostScript file > > > > > Lester Ingber wrote: > > > Up until about a month ago I was able to send PostScript files to my PC > > network PostScript printer using the -S flag (as on Solaris) to specify > > an IP address, e.g., I used > > lpr -S10.6.18.220 -Pq -ol file.ps > > and it worked great even in batch mode for many files. > > > > Now it seems broken? I get: > > lpr: unknown option -- S > > > > Has the cygwin utility been changed? > > > Sort of. Unless you were using a custom program, there WAS no cygwin > version of lpr until about a month ago. At that time, a cygwin version > of lpr was added to the cygutils package. > > My guess: you were previously using the native windows version of lpr in > C:\WINNT\system32\ and now are using the new cygwin version. > > Good things about the cygwin version: understands cygwin paths and > filenames. Bad things: command line options aren't the same -- and I > don't think it can use ip addrs as print destinations. Contributions > welcome. > > --Chuck >
No, it can't use IP addresses; however, if you have connected to a network printer via control panel, it can use that. --Rick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- 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/
