Re: print buffer produces incorrect format with emacs-22.1 and Sol 10

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:28:07PM -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Gary Mills wrote:
> 
> > When `Print Buffer' is selected from the file menu, the file appears
> > on the printer, but some lines have extra spaces. The letter `r' has
> > disappeared on these lines. It's as if `pr -er | lp' has been used
> > to print the file. Printing works correctly with emacs-21.2.
> >
> > These differences in lpr.el appear relevant:
> >
> >     < (defcustom lpr-page-header-switches '("-F")
> >     ---
> >     > (defcustom lpr-page-header-switches '("-h %s" "-F")
> 
> So does the problem go away if you do:
> 
> (setq lpr-page-header-switches '("-F"))

See below.

> I can't reproduce this though. Does it happen with every buffer? Can
> you give a recipe starting from

My test has been `emacs /usr/pub/ascii', followed by `ESC-X
print-buffer'.  One thing I also noticed is that the page header looks
like this:

    Jun 11 11:25 2007    a Emacbuff Page 1

I replaced lpr.elc and lpr.el in /usr/local/share/emacs/22.1/lisp
with copies from emacs/21.2/lisp.  After that, the page header was:

     Jun 12 10:10 2007    ascii Emacs buffer Page 1

The rest of the file was correct too.

> emacs -q --no-site-file
> 
> that shows the problem?

I was able to capture the file before it went to the printer.
My test was `emacs -q --no-site-file /usr/pub/ascii', followed by
`ESC-X print-buffer'.  Here's the beginning of the file:

  ==> /var/spool/print/dfA191S0106080020b3a84b <==
  
  
  Jun 15 20:58 2007   a Emacbuff Page 1
  
  
  |000 nul|001 soh|002 stx|003 etx|004 eot|005 enq|006 ack|007 bel|
  |010 bs |011 ht |012 nl |013 vt |014 np |015 c   |016 so |017 si |
  |020 dle|021 dc1|022 dc2|023 dc3|024 dc4|025 nak|026 syn|027 etb|
  |030 can|031 em |032 sub|033 esc|034 fs |035 gs |036    s |037 us |
  |040 sp |041  ! |042  " |043  # |044  $ |045  % |046  & |047  ' |

Here's the same test after I did ``(setq lpr-page-header-switches '("-F"))'':

  ==> /var/spool/print/dfA192S0106080020b3a84b <==
  
  
  Jun 15 21:10 2007   Page 1
  
  
  |000 nul|001 soh|002 stx|003 etx|004 eot|005 enq|006 ack|007 bel|
  |010 bs |011 ht |012 nl |013 vt |014 np |015 cr |016 so |017 si |
  |020 dle|021 dc1|022 dc2|023 dc3|024 dc4|025 nak|026 syn|027 etb|
  |030 can|031 em |032 sub|033 esc|034 fs |035 gs |036 rs |037 us |
  |040 sp |041  ! |042  " |043  # |044  $ |045  % |046  & |047  ' |
  
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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-