From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135014926 15787 80.91.229.2 (19 Dec 2005 17:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 19 18:55:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoPDe-0002FB-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:54:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoPEU-0004hx-Ly for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:55:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1135014790 87657 169.229.140.13 (19 Dec 2005 17:53:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:53:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136449 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32068 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Eli Zaretskii ], who wrote in article : > > Please explain how you can print this buffer if all you know about the > > printer is that it accessible through the named pipe "/pipe/printer-input". > > Set printer-name to "/pipe/printer-input" and invoke lpr-buffer. Will not do anything. This pipe does not accept arbitrary-ASCII input. > > Now repeat this assuming that the only character in buffer is U+0292. > This doesn't have anything to do with the issue at hand, but the > answer is the same, assuming you have your encoding stuff set up > correctly wrt the encoding supported by the printer. There is no "encoding supported by the printer". You may assume that the printer supports only its only "command set". > > Are you assuming that sending character "a" to the printer pipe will > > print "a" on paper? > On MS-Windows, it does. I know very little about Win*, but AFAICS, this thread is about the fact that it does not. > > I'm not even sure that typical printers-of-today can work with > > one-sided-connection at all... > Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by one-sided-connection, and > neither what that has to do with this thread. My understanding is that you indeed understand very little about what this thread is about. BTW, "connection" is the communication channel between the printer and the computer. There is no reason to assume that one can print using one-sided communication (computer --> printer) only; at some moment the printer may send some information back to computer, and expect it perform some action. Hope this helps, Ilya