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: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:01:16 +0100 Message-ID: <43BD891C.5080403@student.lu.se> References: <48898444887291.48872914889844@net.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 1136495117 2649 80.91.229.2 (5 Jan 2006 21:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 22:05:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EucIL-0005yA-OS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:05:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EucJW-0006KV-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EucGR-0003ii-1p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EucGP-0003hP-36 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:03:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EucGO-0003hL-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EucI0-0007Iv-UE; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43BA90DD000AF567; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:01:21 +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:32462 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:24:35 +0100 >>From: LENNART BORGMAN >>Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >>(default-printer-name) returns \\host-name\1234567890 >> >>where host-name is the name where the printer queue is. >> >> > >And using this in Emacs as the value of `printer-name' (after escaping >the backslashes) fails to produce the printed matter, is that right? > Ehum, I did not test because it looks so very strange. I will try it next week. Do you really expect something like that to work? I mean it is exactly those figures I wrote above.