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This works great. Thanks :)

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Michael Slass wrote:
>  > Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
>  >>I'm having trouble printing to a remote printer from within emacs. The
>  >>command I normally use from the cmd line is 'ssh host print'. How can
>  >>I get emacs to use this command?
>  >
>  > Check out docs for the variable lpr-command
>  > ,----[ C-h v lpr-command RET ]
>  > | lpr-command's value is "lpr"
>  > |
>  > | Documentation:
>  > | *Name of program for printing a file.
> ...
> 
> Although the variable is named with a -command suffix, it's doc string
> accurately describes its value as a program name.  That is, it is
> invoked via call-process (actually, call-process-region) not via a
> shell-command.  So I think what Lowell needs is
> 
> (setq lpr-command "ssh"
>       lpr-switches '("host" "print")
>       lpr-add-switches nil)
>