Printing PostScript file

Mon Apr 1 15:38:00 GMT 2002

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 -昭和10年6月18日.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
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