On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> I had our UNIX administrator work on this for a couple of days. He
> totally reinstalled Cygwin. The problem still exists.
This has nothing to do with Cygwin -- the link is probably on the server
share... Can you "ls" it and see what the permissions are?
> However, I created a workaround which may be of benefit to others.
>
> With a postscript file or output from a2ps use this command
>
> cat $i.ps | $HOME/bin/print.pl
>
> and this perl file
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # print.pl: Cygwin print workaround
> use IO::Socket::INET;
> $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new("10.30.16.51:9100")
> or die "Couldn't Connect to 10.30.16.51 port 9100: $!";
> while (<>) {
> print $socket "$_\n";
> }
> print "\n";
> exit;
You do realize that this completely bypasses the printer driver and sends
the postscript directly to the printer, right? If this is what you want,
fine, but I wanted to make sure the caveat was in the archives.
Igor
--
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
|\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!)
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
"Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte."
"But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in
that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
--
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/
