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Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:12:30 +0200

> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 20:06:03 -0500
> From: BRUCE INGALLS <bruce.ingalls@gmail.com>
> 
> I did not realize that Emacs already had w32 default-printer code.
> Does anyone know, or can provide suggestions for default printers for
> other platforms, such as mac osx, gnome, kde?

Other platforms, at least those which are Posix-compliant, don't need
to set printer-name, they need to set lpr-program and (optionally)
ps-lpr-program, because on those platforms you simply pipe the text to
a program which then takes care of spooling and printing.
printer-name was invented for MS-DOS and MS-Windows.

> Do the alpha releases of Emacs on w32 set printer-name to 
> default-printer-name?

Yes; see dos-w32.el.  Unless the user customizes printer-name, the
result of default-printer-name is used.




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