--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin 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 > simple > >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 > > Rather than talk about escaping backslashes, why not just use > //computer/printer ? >
OK, so I need to read *all* my messages before replying... --Rick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
