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From: Ed Reingold <edward.reingold@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Printer definition
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 17:26:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47db22c1-07c4-45f0-9f38-a1aca278f57e@p18g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvk4e7xpep.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

The best thing would be to trap the error (the way it does with pr)
and signal the user.  No response meant I had to manually debug
the code.  The man page for the lpr that I use specifically says that
it does not honor the -d option.

he problem is that, for some reason, the flag to the lpr command was
> > set to "-d"
> > instead of  "-P" even though Emacs knows it's a Unix-like system
> > (Solaris).
>
> "lp -d<printer>" is a standard Unix command, and lpr.el apparently
> thinks it's the right command to use for your system.  IIRC Solaris
> indeed has an "lp" command (tho my experience with Solaris is from many
> years ago), so normally all you have to do is (setq printer-name
> "HP4050HM_FDx").  Have you tried to simply remove the (setq lpr-command
> "lpr")?
>
> Admittedly, maybe lpr-printer-switch should be automatically updated to
> "-P" if you set lpr-command to "lpr".
>
>         Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-06  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-02 19:10 Printer definition Ed Reingold
2011-05-03 15:10 ` Ed Reingold
2011-05-04  0:50   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-06  0:26     ` Ed Reingold [this message]
2011-05-06 16:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-06 22:19         ` Ed Reingold

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