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RE: Printing locally
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- To: 'Karl M' <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:01:19 +0100
- Subject: RE: Printing locally
Hi Karl,
does your file have a formfeed at end?
If not, you may create a helper file and try
cat file ff > prn
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl M [SMTP:karlm30@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 00:39
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Printing locally
>
> Hi All...
>
> Having watched this thread, I decided to give the printing a try (in the
> past, I have only done Windows based printing).
>
> If I do
>
> cat file > prn
>
> or
>
> cat file > //machine/DeskJet
>
> from a bash shell the file is sent to the printer, but the printer gets an
>
> error (flashing error light on the printer) that must be cleared before
> the
> file prints. After clearing the error, the page I printed for testing is
> printed.
>
> If I do
>
> print file
>
> from a bash shell, it prints just fine.
>
> My system is a Win2kpro with everything current as of this morning.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl
>
[Heribert] [snip]
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