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Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer
From: |
Joe Fineman |
Subject: |
Problem with Emacs -> Windows -> printer |
Date: |
31 Jul 2003 13:39:59 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
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. :||
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