Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:18:48 +0100
> From: LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> To be sure on what I am doing I then went to the host for the queue to find the share name instead of the queue name:
> 
> 
>     c:\> copy file.txt \\host-name\share-name
> 
> This swallowed the job but I get no output and nothing is shown in the printer queue (where I normally see all waiting jobs). 

You can use the "net use" command to arrange for some port, like LPT2,
to redirect its output to this printer.  (I think this is explained in
the Emacs manual.)  Then all you need to do to print is to set
printer-name to "LPT2",

> I believe this is what I found last time I tested about two years ago too. It seems that in some circumstances it actually could work, but not in all. That can explain why it has been so hard trying to clear this out. 

The only hard-to-solve cases that I've met are those where a printer
has no \\server\share style name, and no port (PRN, LPT1, etc.) that
is captured and redirected to the printer.  These cases are quite
rare, but when they do happen, the only solution I'm aware of is to
use an external program, some work-alike of lpr.

But in most cases, the advice in the manual ``just works''.