Re: new in emacs

[john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe)]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:12:32 +0200, "barak yaish"
<yaishb@mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

>still doesn't help. when i'm trying to print a buffer, i got a message:
>"spooling with options (headers not supported)...done" and nothing is
>printed out.

Tell us a bit more about how your printer is set up. Is it a networked
printer? This may seem obvious, but you *have* read:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html#printing

haven't you?

>i don't want to miss emacs for such stupid thing.
>
>barak.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org
>[mailto:help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org]On Behalf Of John McCabe
>Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 13:32
>To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: new in emacs
>
>
>On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:50:10 +0200, "barak yaish"
><yaishb@mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:
>
>>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>
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>>	charset="windows-1255"
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>>hi all,
>>
>>At last i decided to test emasc and see whether it meets my requirments.
>but
>>there is little problem. my OS is win2k, and i cant configure the printing
>>through emacs! i tried to play with the .emacs file, but i probably did it
>>wrong... please some can guide me. i have a network printer (connected to a
>>hole in the wall :-) with known address (of course). i the .emasc file i
>>wrote (setq printer-name "\\\\BIU\\pr-mehr-2200-2").
>
>Try using the customize facility.
>
>M-x customize-option<ret>
>printer-name<ret>
>
>In the "Name:" box enter:
>
>//BIU/pr-mehr-2200-2
>
>and press "Save for future sessions".
>
>> by the way, the file is
>>placed under c:/usr/home, but my home directory (which i've no idea if
>emacs
>>knows that as well) is c:/documents and settings/yaishb.
>
>If you haven't set the environment variable "HOME" to anything (under
>Control Panel => System => Advanced => Environment Variables) then I
>believe Emacs treats your home directory as C:\. You can easily find
>out: enter C-x d then, at the prompt, press ~ and then <return>. Emacs
>will open a directory listing of what it considers to be your home
>directory, with the name at the top of the buffer.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>PS If there's any way for you to disable the sending of html it would
>probably be appreciated.
>
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