On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > [snip] > > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? > > > > Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "enscript". > > Igor > > lpr works just fine here with a minor problem: > > $ lpr textfile.txt > lpr: no printer specified > > though the printer is specified in /etc/profile. But the printer > variable isn't exported there so lpr cannot find it. Should this be > fixed?
Yep, looks like a base-files bug. /etc/profile should have an "export PRINTER" after the definition of "PRINTER". John? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/