From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer Date: 31 Jul 2003 13:39:59 -0400 Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059677080 24346 80.91.224.249 (31 Jul 2003 18:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 20:44:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19iIJY-0005mT-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19iIGz-0001OY-Cl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:35:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp0c012.std.com Original-X-Trace: pcls3.std.com 1059673194 16921 208.192.102.12 (31 Jul 2003 17:39:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:39:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115593 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11512 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11512 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 -P [-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. :||