RE: Can't print because .lnk makes printer name invalid

["Rockefeller, Harry" <harryr at ssd dot fsi dot com>]

Jay Abel wrote:
>I would love to know how to get lpr to just print directly to the
printer's 
>IP address, but the above isn't as bad as it seems, since it keeps
windows 
>and cygwin print jobs in sequence, and visible in the queue.
>
>I'm sure there is a better way, but the above worked for me.

With help I received from this list I found that the Windows (DOS?)
lpr command *does* work.  So, my latest workaround is to create
a couple of aliases which call the Win lpr command instead of
the Cygwin one.  From my ~/.bash_login and ~/.bashrc files:

alias lprbw='/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr -S ntserver1 -P sw-txt1 '
alias lprcl='/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr -S ntserver1 -P hpcj1 '

Maybe something like this will also work for you?

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