Re: Critical BUG: can not print to Mac 10.6.6

Tom Ryan <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:56:05 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Message-ID <C9CA0A75.316E0%[email protected]>
I will build a dmg if/when 1.6.1 is released.

Tom

On 4/12/11 1:53 PM, "MargoAndTodd" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/12/2011 05:04 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I managed to reproduce the problem by using the command line you
>> gave in the original email. Technically, the problem is that rdesktop
>> prints by calling the "lpr" command. If this command terminates very
>> quickly, rdesktop will recieve the SIGPIPE signal when it writes the
>> printer data to the "lpr" pipe. This causes rdesktop to exit.
>> 
>> I just checked in a fix which prevents this. Your real problem, however,
>> is that the "lpr" command terminates instead of accepting printer data.
> 
> 
> Very cool.  Thank you for troubleshooting this for me!
> 
> How soon do you think we will see the patch in general distribution
> (1.6.1?)?
> 
> And, if it is not pushing it too much, would you compile us up
> a mac binary?  (DMG I presume.)
> 
> Many thanks,
> -T
> 
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