: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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