--- Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > > > > > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with > > > Windows" section for the User's Guide. > > > > > > If you'd like to look at it as a web page: > > > <http://iocc.com/~joshua/tmp/using-effectively.html> > > > > In the next to last paragraph there is a strange thing ;-) > > "Therefore these two types of links differently." > > Good catch. > > > > Some things: > > --8<-- > > > --Documentation of printing is sparse since I don't really do it much. > > > Does anyone have extensive documentation of their complex setup? > > > > I'd say stay basic: i.e. tell that: (This is quickly sribbled text, take > > heed!) > > OK, here is the updated section: > > --BEGIN > There are several options for printing from Cygwin, including the native > Windows lpr.exe, and the simlple lpr found in cygutils. The cygutils version > will print to the printer definted in your PRINTER environment variable. It > also accepts network printer names in backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer > Share), which must be escaped from shells such as bash (\\\\COMPUTER\\Printer > Share). If you have a command in a script such that it may be processed twice > by the shell, you may need to double-escape the name > (\\\\\\\\COMPUTER\\\\Printer Share). Note that lpr does no conversion of > data; the printer must recognize the format of the data that is sent to it. > Failing to do so will make the printer do random things, hang, or ignore the > input. If your printer supports PostScript, packages such as a2ps and > enscript can prepare text files for printing. The ghostscript package also > provides some translation from PostScript to various native printer > languages. > --END > Umm, the current version of lpr accepts forward slashes (//COMPUTER/Printer) now, as well. No need to fool with all the escaping.
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