From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:23:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <43A37B01.6080603@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134933974 6479 80.91.229.2 (18 Dec 2005 19:26:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 18 20:26:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo493-0001Uz-Eb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:24:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo49r-0002AV-AY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:25:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo496-0001zD-65 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo493-0001xl-De for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo493-0001xh-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eo4Br-0000ye-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:27:28 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-23-130.inter.net.il [80.230.23.130]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id DEX13590 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:23:15 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Ilya Zakharevich on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:22:06 +0000 (UTC)) 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:32045 Archived-At: > From: Ilya Zakharevich > Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:22:06 +0000 (UTC) > Bcc: ilya@gnu.org > Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu > > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Eli Zaretskii Sigh... > > You only need to know its name or the port which it captures. > > You are joking, right? You have a buffer which contain one character > only. Suppose it is 'a'. > > 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. > 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. > Are you assuming that sending character "a" to the printer pipe will > print "a" on paper? On MS-Windows, it does. This thread was about printing on Windows. > 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. > Hope this helps, It doesn't, but I didn't really expect it to.