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Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:05:28 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:11:01 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> >You can use the "net use" command to arrange for some port, like LPT2,
> >to redirect its output to this printer. (I think this is explained in
> >the Emacs manual.) Then all you need to do to print is to set
> >printer-name to "LPT2",
> >
> >
> I will try, but is there any technical reason to assume that this works
> differently?
I don't know, it's hard to tell without taking a good look at how your
printers are configured on that specific system.
> I guess I can then do
>
> copy file.txt lpt2:
Yes (but lose the colon after "lpt2", it's redundant).
> or should not this work too?
It should.
> Also, when accessing the printer on this level, as Iliya said, there
> might be some problems.
What Ilya said made no sense. You can try it yourself: send any
printable ASCII character to the printer (on a system where Emacs
_can_ refer to a printer by its //share/printer style name), and see
if that character gets printed. Then, if your printer supports
Latin-1 characters, say, send some Latin-1 characters and see whether
it makes any difference.
> It was a long time ago I looked into this more in details, but what
> about the reset of the printer for example?
What ``reset of the printer''? what does that have to do with this
thread? We were talking about printing text; by contrast, Reset is a
command that you send via some kind of managerial interface that has
nothing to do with Emacs or its way to send text to the printer.
Please don't make a mistake of taking Ilya's deliberations seriously.
> Can we be sure this is done here?
Why should it be done? There's no need to reset the printer before,
after, or during sending text to it.
> Does someone has a good link to an overview of the printer reset, entry
> points to the printer queue etc on MS Windows?
I'm sure the Windows print spooler operation is a fascinating subject,
but it has nothing to do with what we were discussing, which is how to
send text from Emacs to a printer. These are two orthogonal issues,
in the sense that when I send text from Emacs, I don't need to know
anything about the spooler's operation.
- Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, (continued)
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- Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Mathias Dahl, 2005/12/19
- Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/19
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- Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Mathias Dahl, 2005/12/20
- Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/20
- RE: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Drew Adams, 2005/12/20
Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/15
RE: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Jay Bingham, 2005/12/15
Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, LENNART BORGMAN, 2005/12/19
Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Mathias Dahl, 2005/12/19
Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, LENNART BORGMAN, 2005/12/20
Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs, Mathias Dahl, 2005/12/20