RE: Printing locally

2002-03-06 Thread Heribert Dahms
: 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

Re: Printing locally

2002-03-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:22:51AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 07:24 PM 3/3/2002, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote: What about this? Any good? If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try

Re: Printing locally

2002-03-05 Thread Rick Rankin
What kind of printer is it? If, for example, it's a Postscript printer and you cat plain text to it, you will get nothing. You would need to use enscript or a2ps to convert the plaint text to Postscript. Printing through Notepad would do this for you. Just a thought. --Rick --- Brian

Re: Printing locally

2002-03-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:21 AM 3/5/2002, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:22:51AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: Hm, then there must be some issue locally. I have used both cat file.txt prn I have noticed that if you have the printer window open, it has a brief message

Re: Printing locally

2002-03-04 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:24 PM 3/3/2002, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote: What about this? Any good? If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try cp a.txt prn OR cat a.txt prn and if a.txt is Unix-terminated, try

Re: Printing locally.

2002-03-03 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:40:47PM -0500, David Means wrote: I don't have my cygwin machine handy, so I've got to ask: how about this: cat a.txt /cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1 that's probably not the ultimate solution, but does it work? No. It reports nothing and does nothing. There is

Re: Printing locally

2002-03-03 Thread fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
What about this? Any good? If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try cp a.txt prn OR cat a.txt prn and if a.txt is Unix-terminated, try cat a.txt | unix2dos prn Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Printing locally

2002-03-03 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote: What about this? Any good? If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try cp a.txt prn OR cat a.txt prn and if a.txt is Unix-terminated, try cat a.txt | unix2dos prn Fergus This was a good

Re: Printing locally.

2002-03-02 Thread David Means
I don't have my cygwin machine handy, so I've got to ask: how about this: cat a.txt /cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1 that's probably not the ultimate solution, but does it work? David On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 21:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:45:57AM -0500, Paul McFerrin

Printing locally.

2002-03-01 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
Gygwin is a great product and it allows me to do much unix work but on top of windows. I am essentially a unix person. Now I am trying to simply print text mutt mail messages to a local printer plugged into the back of my machine, which is running Windows2000. I have read the FAQ and searched

Re: Printing locally.

2002-03-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
Brian: I used to be able to print from cygwin by refering to /dev/lpt1 -paul mcferrin Brian Salter-Duke wrote: Gygwin is a great product and it allows me to do much unix work but on top of windows. I am essentially a unix person. Now I am trying to simply print text mutt mail messages