From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: w32 issues Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:41:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4793DC1B.20505@gmail.com> References: <200801192020.m0JKKUWl017748@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200801201710.m0KHAoKn021472@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <479388A9.9010600@gmail.com> <200801201755.m0KHtuDH003880@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47938D58.4010809@gmail.com> <200801201820.m0KIKxtW012230@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47939341.6010903@gmail.com> <4793C620.2000500@gnu.org> <4793CD7D.6070004@gmail.com> <4793D8AA.70809@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200872551 3842 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2008 23:42:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 00:42:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JGjoJ-0001wy-1C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:42:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGjnt-0004o9-LG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGjn4-0004QM-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGjn2-0004OK-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGjn1-0004O4-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:41:23 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGjmu-00018h-Ok; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:41:17 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:65253 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JGjmt-0007e0-3a; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:41:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <4793D8AA.70809@gnu.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080120-1, 2008-01-20), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JGjmt-0007e0-3a. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JGjmt-0007e0-3a 7df278823e603ff28a3a3bf117223487 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87141 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> Jason, you mentioned a work around setting up the printer to be >> networked. Is not the chance that it is a GDI printer rather high and >> that it will not work because of this? > > There is no such thing as a GDI printer. GDI is a Windows API for > drawing graphics. Printers take text or binary commands over a wire. > Setting up the printer through the network solves the problem that USB > ports do not have real character devices assigned to them by default. Yes, but it is also the language used for printing on those printers, see for example: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:GDI_Printers As they write there such printers does not always recognize other printer language than GDI. They also mention the problem that the printer might be in a bad state. Using the "network fix" does not necessarily seem to help, or?