Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

> > Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:00:24 -0500
> > From: BRUCE INGALLS <bruce.ingalls@gmail.com>
> > 
> > > > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:01:16 +0100
> > > > From: Lennart Borgman
> > > >
> > > > >>(default-printer-name) returns \\host-name\1234567890
> > > > >>
> > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > That sure does not look right.
> 
> What doesn't look right, exactly?  I took the above as a template, not
> as a literal string that is the printer's name.  If it's a literal
> string, then it is indeed strange, but default-printer-name simply
> calls GetProfileString and GetPrinter APIs, so whatever those return,
> it's the system's notion of the printer.  Unless there's a bug in
> default-printer-name, in which case please step through it and tell
> what goes wrong there.

I have felt a bit nervous over the weekend. Did I really test this with -Q? Or is it something long forgotten I have in my initialization files.

I tried again with -Q. And yes, it is literally the share name I told ("1234567890").