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 22:00:23 +0100 Message-ID: <47965967.3070705@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> <47953C6E.3090707@ig.com.br> <47961AD7.7040106@ig.com.br> 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 1201035736 23075 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 21:02:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 22:02:35 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 1JHQGQ-00082j-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:02:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHQG0-0008Fd-M0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:02:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHQEx-0007Ig-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:01:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHQEu-0007GN-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:01:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHQEu-0007GF-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:01:00 -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 1JHQEj-00041B-Gx; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:60845 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JHQEg-0003mY-3G; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:00:46 +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: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080122-1, 2008-01-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JHQEg-0003mY-3G. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JHQEg-0003mY-3G 0c08cb60d420781f184f627cab3d661e 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:87315 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:33:27 -0300 >> From: Vinicius Jose Latorre >> CC: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, >> jasonr@gnu.org >> >>> What that program does is simply give you a way of sending a file with >>> PostScript commands to a printer that supports PostScript. So if a >>> user has a PostScript capable printer, but cannot refer to that >>> printer either as a port such as LPT2 or as a networked share such as >>> \\server\printer, then yes, such a user will be able to use that >>> program as a solution. >>> >> The program documentation says that it deals with LPT, PRN, USB, and >> network printers (\\server\printer). > > Yes, of course. What I wanted to say was that Emacs already knows how > to deal with all but the USB types. Should it not help a little bit to use StartDocPrinter etc? But that is not the final solution of course and I believe it will only help a small fragment of the users. >> Also the program lists all printer name which are accessible by the >> computer. > > Sure, but so does the standard Printers applet in the Start->Settings > dialog. >