Re: [h-e-w] printing in Emacs21?

[Michael W Daniels]

At 07:36 PM 11/13/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> > But I can't use the "Postscript Print Buffer" command in emacs. I have
> > ps-print-command left blank and ps-printer-name is set to "LPT1",
> > which is what the documentation implies should work. When I try to
> > print a file in emacs, the "Printing...done" line appears in the
> > minibuffer, but nothing else happens.
>
> Try "LPT1:" instead of "LPT". Different versions of Windows have been
> known to act differently in the past WRT device names.

That didn't have an effect, unfortunately. What I ended up doing was 
writing a batch file p.bat containing the line

type %1>lpt1

and using that as the value of ps-lpr-command (since the filename is always 
appended to that variable).

As a side note, can anyone explain how the ps-printer-name-option becomes 
part of the generated command line? The text in the configure screen is 
rather cryptic:

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On Unix-like systems, if it's been used lpr utility, it should be the string
"-P"; if it's been used lp utility, it should be the string "-d".

On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, if it's been used print utility, it should be
the string "/D:".

For any other printing utility, see the proper manual or documentation.

Set to "" or nil, if the utility given by `ps-lpr-command' needs an empty
option printer name option.

Any other value is treated as nil, that is, an empty printer name option.
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