From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 23:07:35 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84ispfix9k.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <1a61f7e5.0308010811.5063579e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059859214 28584 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2003 21:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 23:20:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19j3ne-0001fw-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2003 23:20:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19j3eG-0000Fm-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2003 17:10:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.tiscali.ch!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951fb8d.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951fb8d.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.251.141) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1059858456 26199170 217.81.251.141 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tfNj0FuUJ8sFtIo9mFPz51MGNxQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115641 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11558 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11558 Joe Fineman writes: > robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe) writes: > >> Share the printer over the network (even if there isn't one). Then >> set Emacs to do >\\Computername\printername by customizing >> printer-name. > > Thanks for trying, but I'm afraid I'm not in your league. I suspect I > am a longish lecture away from understanding either "share the > printer" I don't know how to do it in Windows (I've never really used it), but I would go look for the printer icon in the control panel and then right-click on it, hoping that the resulting context menu would contain an entry that would share this printer. > or "set Emacs to do". M-x customize-variable RET printer-name RET Follow the prompts. Enter the given printer name, eg //Computername/printername (note the forward slashes, I suggest to use these instead of \ slashes). Don't forget to save your changes (there is a button near the top that saves your changes for future sessions). -- Two cafe au lait please, but without milk.