a2ps and printer (and lpr fix)

Thu May 22 19:23:00 GMT 2003

Hi,
Giles Civario identified a cygutils lpr fix that enables 
printing postscript to a postscript printer (by fixing the 
datatype code from 'raw' to 'RAW' - 2003年5月14日 07:36:53 
+0200). 
This is Great news! I really hope this fix will work for the 
same problem I have with a current Cygwin under Win98SE, also 
using a postscript printer.
Will cygutils be updated with this fix? 
(On my system, when referencing the postscript printer by its 
share name, a StartDocPrinter error is returned with an 
apparently binary code to STDERR (02x 04x) in place of text. If 
I use the local printer name instead of the share reference, 
then a window pops up indicating an print error, and suggests 
setting the printer to use RAW spool format - but the printer 
already IS set in that mode.) 
Just a sanity check, however. Does the fix impact printing to a 
non-postscript printer (or one whose spool setting is not 
'RAW')? 
The reason I ask is that I can print a raw text file to a non-
postscript printer using lpr. This raises the question whether 
this works simply because 'raw' is not recognized. Of course, I 
really want to print postscript to the postscript printer, but 
wouldn't want a fix to break lpr access to the non-postscript 
printer. 
Thanks,
Carl Holmberg
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