* faq-using.xml: Remove assertion that lpr doesn't exit.
* faq-what.xml: Remove ancient who's who data.
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2008-11-30 Christopher Faylor <me+cygwin@cgf.cx>
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* faq-using.xml: Remove assertion that lpr doesn't exit.
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* faq-what.xml: Remove ancient who's who data.
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2008-11-25 Christopher Faylor <me+cygwin@cgf.cx>
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2008-11-25 Christopher Faylor <me+cygwin@cgf.cx>
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* overview2.sgml: Reorganize and make minor wording changes.
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* overview2.sgml: Reorganize and make minor wording changes.
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<question><para>How do I print under Cygwin?</para></question>
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<question><para>How do I print under Cygwin?</para></question>
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<answer>
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<answer>
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<para>There is no working lp or lpr system as you would find on UNIX.
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<para>lpr is available in the <ulink url="http://cygwin.com/setup.exe">setup.exe</ulink> cygutils package. Some <ulink url="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-05/msg00123.html">usage hints</ulink> are available courtesy of Rodrigo Medina.
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>Jason Tishler has written a couple of messages that explain how to use
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<para>Jason Tishler has written a couple of messages that explain how to use
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a2ps (for nicely formatted text in PostScript) and ghostscript (to print
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a2ps (for nicely formatted text in PostScript) and ghostscript (to print
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<para><emphasis role='bold'>(Please note that if you have cygwin-specific questions, all of these people will appreciate it if you use the cygwin mailing lists rather than sending personal email.)</emphasis>
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<para><emphasis role='bold'>(Please note that if you have cygwin-specific questions, all of these people will appreciate it if you use the cygwin mailing lists rather than sending personal email.)</emphasis>
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</para>
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<para>Chris Faylor is behind many of the recent changes in Cygwin. Prior to
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<para>Chris Faylor provided the Cygwin signal handler code. He also maintains
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joining Cygnus, he contributed significant fixes to the process control
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the <ulink url='http://sourceware.org'>sourceware site</ulink> where the
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and environ code, reworked the strace mechanism, and rewrote the
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cygwin project lives.</para>
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signal-related code from scratch as a Net contributor. In addition to
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continuing to make technical contributions, Chris is also currently the
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group's manager.
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</para>
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<para>Corinna Vinschen has contributed several useful fixes to the path
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<para>Corinna Vinschen has contributed several useful fixes to the path
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handling code, console support, improved security handling, and raw
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handling code, console support, improved security handling, and raw
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device support. Corinna is currently employed by Red Hat as a
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device support. Corinna is currently employed by Red Hat as a
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GDB/Cygwin engineer.
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GDB/Cygwin engineer.
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</para>
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<para>DJ Delorie has done important work in profiling Cygwin,
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worked on the Dejagnu automated testing framework, merged the dlltool
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functionality into ld, wrote a good deal of the Cygwin Users' Guide,
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authored the cygcheck utility, and made automated snapshots available
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from our project WWW page. DJ is currently employed by Red Hat as
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a GCC engineer.
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</para>
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<para>Egor Duda has contributed many useful fixes. He is responsible for
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Cygwin's ability to start a debugger on detection of a fatal error
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as well as produce core dumps.
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<para>Robert Collins has contributed many improvements to thread handling
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as well as generic fixes to cygwin itself.
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</para>
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<para>Kazuhiro Fujieda has contributed many bug fixes and bug reports.
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</para>
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<para>Earnie Boyd has contributed many bug fixes and is the mingw and w32api
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maintainer.
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</para>
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<para>David Starks-Browning is our dedicated FAQ maintainer.
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<para>Geoffrey Noer took over the Cygwin project from its initial author Steve
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Chamberlain in mid-1996. As maintainer, he produced Net releases beta
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16 through 20; made the development snapshots; worked with Net
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contributors to fix bugs; made many various code improvements himself;
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wrote a paper on Cygwin for the 1998 Usenix NT Symposium; authored the
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project WWW pages, FAQ, README; etc. Geoffrey is not currently employed
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by Red Hat.
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</para>
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<para>Steve Chamberlain designed and implemented
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<para>Steve Chamberlain designed and implemented
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Cygwin in 1995-1996 while working for Cygnus. He worked with the Net
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Cygwin in 1995-1996 while working for Cygnus. He worked with the Net
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to improve the technology, ported/integrated many of the user tools
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to improve the technology, ported/integrated many of the user tools
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for the first time to Cygwin, and produced all of the releases up to
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for the first time to Cygwin, and produced all of the releases up to
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beta 14. Steve is not currently employed by Red Hat.
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beta 14. Steve is not currently employed by Red Hat.
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<para>Marco Fuykschot and Peter Boncz of Data Distilleries contributed nearly
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all of the changes required to make Cygwin thread-safe. They also
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provided the pthreads interface.
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<para>Sergey Okhapkin has been an invaluable Net contributor. He implemented
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<para>Sergey Okhapkin has been an invaluable Net contributor. He implemented
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the tty/pty support, has played a significant role in revamping signal
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the tty/pty support, has played a significant role in revamping signal
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and exception handling, and has made countless contributions throughout
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and exception handling, and has made countless contributions throughout
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the library. He also provided binaries of the development snapshots to
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the library. He also provided binaries of the development snapshots to
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the Net after the beta 19 release.
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the Net after the beta 19 release.
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<para>Mumit Khan has been most helpful on the EGCS end of things, providing
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quite a large number of stabilizing patches to the compiler tools for
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the B20 release.
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<para>Philippe Giacinti contributed the implementation of dlopen, dlclose,
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<para>Philippe Giacinti contributed the implementation of dlopen, dlclose,
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dlsym, dlfork, and dlerror in Cygwin.
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