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* Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer
@ 2003-07-31 17:39 Joe Fineman
  2003-07-31 18:35 ` Jason Rumney
  2003-08-01 16:11 ` Rob Thorpe
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Joe Fineman @ 2003-07-31 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)


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.
-- 
---  Joe Fineman    jcf@TheWorld.com

||:  Q.  What has six eyes, but can't see?  :||
||:  A.  Three blind mice.                  :||

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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
2003-08-01 22:09   ` Joe Fineman
2003-08-02 19:47     ` Herb Martin
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