From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:30:26 +0100 Message-ID: <43A74292.8010905@student.lu.se> References: <431813e4315b3a.4315b3a431813e@net.lu.se> <43A72FF5.7000505@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135035124 24621 80.91.229.2 (19 Dec 2005 23:32:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 20 00:32:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoUSr-0005wo-4f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:30:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoUTi-0003ek-JY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:31:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EoUTT-0003eX-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EoUTT-0003eL-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoUTT-0003eI-49 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EoUWT-00011I-QD; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43A6AB1400032EEE; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:30:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32082 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>I will try, but is there any technical reason to assume that this works >>differently? >> >> > >I don't know, it's hard to tell without taking a good look at how your >printers are configured on that specific system. > > As you know I am using for a general solution. I can personally get around this problem in a number of ways. > >>I guess I can then do >> >> copy file.txt lpt2 >> >>or should not this work too? >> >> > >It should. > > Thanks. >>It was a long time ago I looked into this more in details, but what >>about the reset of the printer for example? >> >> > >What ``reset of the printer''? what does that have to do with this >thread? We were talking about printing text; by contrast, Reset is a >command that you send via some kind of managerial interface that has >nothing to do with Emacs or its way to send text to the printer. >Please don't make a mistake of taking Ilya's deliberations seriously. > > I have seen setups where the networked printer was left in some PostScript mode after printing. What I was trying to say was that I do not know if you bypass the part of the printer setup that resets it (from for example PostScript mode) when you access it the way above. But I can surely imagine that the ability to do such setups was a bug that is gone now. However I do not know the state of this today. That is what I am asking about. It may seem crazy, but I have seen it happen and have had a lot of trouble with it. IMO this type of bad design happens because those responsible does not understand or does not know all the possibilities.