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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:08:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4795F8D2.3010800@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> <4793DC1B.20505@gmail.com> <4793E37A.6040303@gnu.org> <4793E9FA.1030002@gmail.com> <479409E5.3010701@ig.com.br> <4793FD87.5050503@gmail.com> <4794201A.3060600@ig.com.br> <4794990C.5030603@ig.com.br> <47950A8F.2050705@ig.com.br> <47950BE4.10800@gmail.com> <479531A3.8060609@ig.com.br> <4795262D.6060001@gmail.com> <479539CC.4090104@ig.com.br> <47953108.4040506@gmail.com> <4795463E.3050900@ig.com.br> <479540EA.8080201@gmail.com> <4795C193.9060305@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201010939 26203 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 14:08:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 15:09:18 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 1JHJoL-00008Q-RX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:09:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJnv-00006B-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJno-0008RC-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJnl-0008OB-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJnl-0008O0-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHJne-0001sY-9Z; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:65409 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JHJna-0002f9-8M; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:08:23 +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: <4795C193.9060305@gnu.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080122-0, 2008-01-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JHJna-0002f9-8M. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JHJna-0002f9-8M e5e86a436cc835483ea8134ba9daf42f 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:87299 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> I do not think that is the driver. That is only the API to access the >> printer. Same as a driver is using (but it does a lot more). > > No, that is the API that applications use to talk to the printer driver. Ah, yes thanks. You are right of course. But the printer is only opened and then raw data is sent to it. What we might usually think of as the driver is bypassed. > The printer driver must talk directly to the printer using low level I/O > functions, if Windows had any further abstractions that would entail > another level of drivers.