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 saying the file has no name but is being spooled. Nothing >prints.
Then don't leave the printer window open. ;-) > > and > > > > cat file.txt > //<machine name>/<printer share name> > >Does this work only if the printer is remote. I replaced <machine name> >by BSALTERDUKE1 which is what the printer test page saying machine name >is and <printer share name> by CanonBJC-1000SP which is what the same >page says is the printer name. The printer is local. It reports that it >can not find that node. OK. Must be a network problem there then. > > with no problems in the past. If one or both of these don't work for you, > > you may be stuck trying to debug it. In anticipation of your next question, > > you might try running one or both of these with 'strace'. See strace --help > > for more details of the options. The output may give you an idea of where > > things are going wrong for you. > >I tried all sorts of options and got no output with any of them. > >I private message from someone else suggested:- > >notepad /p file.txt > >This works! OK. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
