Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Printing in Windows

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:26:34 -0800
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:45:45PM -0800, John Paul Morrison wrote:
> Someone asked about printing in Windows directly to printer, instead of
> to file.
>  
> Should be pretty simple: instead of a plane file name, use lpt1: or use
> \\server\printername.
>  
> (don't set PostScript unless you have a PostScript printer)

And if you *do* have a PostScript printer, beware - I tried printing to
\\server\printer, as text but it whined because it didn't like the word
"Frame" at the beginning of the file (i.e., it appears to have assumed
it was being handed PostScript, not text). 

Printing as PostScript worked, though.

(Printing to "lpt1:" didn't work, but that's presumably because I don't
actually have a printer plugged into my desktop PC's parallel port at
work.)