From: Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com>
Subject: Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer
Date: 31 Jul 2003 13:39:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wksmomtx1s.fsf@TheWorld.com> (raw)
I am running Gnu Emacs 21.1.1 under (pardon the expression) Windows
98.
I have two printers: a dot-matrix printer, whose port is known to
Windows as "LPT1: (ECP printer-port)", and an inkjet printer, whose
port is "USB/DeskJet 990C/MY0AK1B0HQLH". Emacs communicates
successfully with the former, the value of the variable printer-name
being PRN. The latter, however, I can only get at thru Windows, using
the trackball.
Regardless of which is the default printer, when I try to print
something out from within Emacs, either by using M-x TeX-print or by
using "lpr -d" within the Cygwin quasi shell, I get a popup window
that says in part
winlpr -S<servername>
-P<printername>
[-N]UserName
This seems to say that Emacs invokes, and lacks parameters to pass to,
a Windows routine called winlpr, and that it requires a servername and
a printername. I cannot find winlpr in the Windows help or in the
dummies or the nutshell book. Google gives me people with something
to sell.
Nor can I find anything about servers or servernames. I have tried
windows-nt and 2000; the former gives an error message, and the latter
causes the computer to try (but fail) to call in to my ISP! What is
winlpr expecting? (Suppose I wished to know what a server actually is
-- where would I look that up?)
As to the printername, the nutshell books says it is usually the model
name. Does that mean 990C, or "DeskJet 990C", or
"USB/DeskJet 990C/MY0AK1B0HQLH"?
Thank you for your attention and patience.
--
--- Joe Fineman jcf@TheWorld.com
||: Q. What has six eyes, but can't see? :||
||: A. Three blind mice. :||
next reply other threads:[~2003-07-31 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-31 17:39 Joe Fineman [this message]
2003-07-31 18:35 ` Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer Jason Rumney
2003-08-01 2:56 ` Joe Fineman
2003-08-01 16:11 ` Rob Thorpe
2003-08-01 22:09 ` Joe Fineman
2003-08-02 19:47 ` Herb Martin
2003-08-02 21:07 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-05 15:46 ` Rob Thorpe
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