Re: glitch when printing from Win 7

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:12:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: zeb7k@hotmail.com
> 
> Here are the pertinent commands in my .EMACS startup file:
> 
>    (setq lpr-command "P:/PrintFile/PrintFile.bat")
>    (setq printer-name nil)
>    (setq lpr-headers-switches "/p")
> 
> Here is the batch file PrintFile.bat:
> 
> echo appdrive is %APPDRIVE% > x:\PrintTrace.log
> echo 1 is %1 >> x:\PrintTrace.log
> echo 2 is %2 >> x:\PrintTrace.log
> regedit.exe /s %APPDRIVE%:\PrintFile\NotePad.reg
> NotePad.exe %1 %2
> 
> (Sometimes I adjust the font in Notepad and forget to switch it back.  The 
> regedit command simply makes sure Notepad.exe is working with the same font 
> size I always use for printing.)
> 
> Here is the contents of PrintTrace.log as viewed in fundamental mode:
> 
> appdrive is P 
> 1 is /p 
> 2 is \213\257\250t:\Temp\EP4252h0o 
> 
> Note the three octal characters in front of the file name.  This is what's 
> gumming things up.  Why is this happening?

Which version of Emacs is that?  And what is the value of
buffer-file-coding-system in the buffer which you tried to print?