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Re: [h-e-w] printing in Emacs21?
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Michael W Daniels |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] printing in Emacs21? |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:33:45 -0500 |
At 07:36 PM 11/13/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> But I can't use the "Postscript Print Buffer" command in emacs. I have
> ps-print-command left blank and ps-printer-name is set to "LPT1",
> which is what the documentation implies should work. When I try to
> print a file in emacs, the "Printing...done" line appears in the
> minibuffer, but nothing else happens.
Try "LPT1:" instead of "LPT". Different versions of Windows have been
known to act differently in the past WRT device names.
That didn't have an effect, unfortunately. What I ended up doing was
writing a batch file p.bat containing the line
type %1>lpt1
and using that as the value of ps-lpr-command (since the filename is always
appended to that variable).
As a side note, can anyone explain how the ps-printer-name-option becomes
part of the generated command line? The text in the configure screen is
rather cryptic:
===
On Unix-like systems, if it's been used lpr utility, it should be the string
"-P"; if it's been used lp utility, it should be the string "-d".
On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, if it's been used print utility, it should be
the string "/D:".
For any other printing utility, see the proper manual or documentation.
Set to "" or nil, if the utility given by `ps-lpr-command' needs an empty
option printer name option.
Any other value is treated as nil, that is, an empty printer name option.
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