Kevin Rodgers writes: > Joe Bush wrote: > > Somehow, I've managed to kill all print functions in my emacs > > (21.2.1). Print Buffer or Postscript Print Buffer commands now return > > 'Symbol's variable is void: \213'. I've had no trouble printing in the > > past, and figure I've erased a file needed by emacs to print. > > That seems unlikely. Try `M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET' > and then post the *Backtrace* buffer that is displayed when you try to > print. > > > Can someone point me to the dependencies required by both print > > functions? > > lpr.el[c] requires no additional libraries. > ps-print.el[c] requires lpr.el[c] and faces.el[c] > > -- > Kevin Rodgers Thanks for the reply, Kevin. Following is the *backtrace* buffer: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot return from the debugger in an error") eval-buffer(# nil "lpr" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/site-lisp/lpr.el.gz" "lpr" nil t) require(lpr) byte-code("ÄÅ!ˆÆÇ!„ÈÉ!ˆÊË!„ËÌMˆÊÍ!„\"ÍÎMˆÊÏ!„,ÏÐMˆÊÑ!„6ÑÒMˆÊÓ!„@ÓÔMˆÊÕ!„JÕÖMˆ×ØÙ\"ˆ×ÚÛ\"ˆ×ÜÝ\"ˆ×Þß\"ˆ×àá\"ˆ×âã\"ˆ×äå\"ˆ×æç\"ˆ×èé\"ˆ×êë\"ˆ×ìí\"ˆ×îï\"ˆ×ðñ\"ˆ×òó\"ˆ×ôõ\"ˆ×ö÷\"ˆ×øù\"ˆ×úû\"ˆ×üý\"ˆ×þÿ\"ˆ×@A\"ˆ×BC\"ˆ×DE\"ˆÊF!ƒÝׁGF\"ˆ‚æׁGH\"ˆÂB I>ÃB J>KLMNOPQR&ˆKSMTUVWXQYQL& ˆKZM[WXO\\QS& ˆK]M^WXO_QS& ˆK`MaWXObQS& ˆKcMdWXOeQS& ˆKfMgWXOhQS& ˆKiMjWXOkQSQl& ˆKmMnWXOoQS& ˆKpMqWXOrQS& ˆKsMtWXOuQS& ˆKvMwWXOxQS& ˆKyMzWXO{QS& ˆK|M}WXO~QS& ‡" [current-load-list system-type ps-windows-system ps-lp-system require lpr featurep lisp-float-type error "`ps-print' requires floating point support" fboundp set-buffer-multibyte #[(arg) "‰‡" [arg enable-multibyte-characters] 2] string-as-unibyte #[(arg) "‡" [arg] 1] string-as-multibyte #[(arg) "‡" [arg] 1] char-charset #[(arg) "À‡" [ascii] 1] charset-after #[(&optional arg) "Áf!‡" [arg char-charset] 2] line-beginning-position #[(&optional n) "ŠƒÁU„SyˆÂ ˆ`)‡" [n 1 beginning-of-line] 2] defalias ps-x-color-instance-p color-instance-p ps-x-color-instance-rgb-components color-instance-rgb-components ps-x-color-name color-name ps-x-color-specifier-p color-specifier-p ps-x-copy-coding-system copy-coding-system ps-x-device-class device-class ps-x-extent-end-position extent-end-position ps-x-extent-face extent-face ps-x-extent-priority extent-priority ps-x-extent-start-position extent-start-position ps-x-face-font-instance face-font-instance ps-x-find-coding-system find-coding-system ps-x-font-instance-properties font-instance-properties ...] 12) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copies of lpr.el, lpr.elc, ps-print.el, ps-print.elc, faces.el & faces.elc are present in /usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/lisp, while lpr.el.gz is present in /usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/site-lisp. -Joe.