From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe)
Subject: Re: Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer
Date: 1 Aug 2003 09:11:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a61f7e5.0308010811.5063579e@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wksmomtx1s.fsf@TheWorld.com
Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com> wrote in message news:<wksmomtx1s.fsf@TheWorld.com>...
> I am running Gnu Emacs 21.1.1 under (pardon the expression) Windows
> 98.
>
> I have two printers: a dot-matrix printer, whose port is known to
> Windows as "LPT1: (ECP printer-port)", and an inkjet printer, whose
> port is "USB/DeskJet 990C/MY0AK1B0HQLH". Emacs communicates
> successfully with the former, the value of the variable printer-name
> being PRN. The latter, however, I can only get at thru Windows, using
> the trackball.
>
> Regardless of which is the default printer, when I try to print
> something out from within Emacs, either by using M-x TeX-print or by
> using "lpr -d" within the Cygwin quasi shell, I get a popup window
> that says in part
>
> winlpr -S<servername>
> -P<printername>
> [-N]UserName
>
> This seems to say that Emacs invokes, and lacks parameters to pass to,
> a Windows routine called winlpr, and that it requires a servername and
> a printername. I cannot find winlpr in the Windows help or in the
> dummies or the nutshell book. Google gives me people with something
> to sell.
>
> Nor can I find anything about servers or servernames. I have tried
> windows-nt and 2000; the former gives an error message, and the latter
> causes the computer to try (but fail) to call in to my ISP! What is
> winlpr expecting? (Suppose I wished to know what a server actually is
> -- where would I look that up?)
>
> As to the printername, the nutshell books says it is usually the model
> name. Does that mean 990C, or "DeskJet 990C", or
> "USB/DeskJet 990C/MY0AK1B0HQLH"?
>
> Thank you for your attention and patience.
Share the printer over the network (even if there isn't one).
Then set Emacs to do >\\Computername\printername by customizing printer-name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-01 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-31 17:39 Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer Joe Fineman
2003-07-31 18:35 ` Jason Rumney
2003-08-01 2:56 ` Joe Fineman
2003-08-01 16:11 ` Rob Thorpe [this message]
2003-08-01 22:09 ` Joe Fineman
2003-08-02 19:47 ` Herb Martin
2003-08-02 21:07 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-05 15:46 ` Rob Thorpe
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