Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:18:48 +0100
> > From: LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > To be sure on what I am doing I then went to the host for the queue to find the 
> > share name instead of the queue name:
> >
> >
> >    c:\> copy file.txt \\host-name\share-name
> >
> > This swallowed the job but I get no output and nothing is shown in the printer queue (where I normally see all waiting jobs). 
> >    
>
> You can use the "net use" command to arrange for some port, like LPT2,
> to redirect its output to this printer.  (I think this is explained in
> the Emacs manual.)  Then all you need to do to print is to set
> printer-name to "LPT2",
>  
I will try, but is there any technical reason to assume that this works 
differently? I guess I can then do

  copy file.txt lpt2:

or should not this work too?

Also, when accessing the printer on this level, as Iliya said, there 
might be some problems. It was a long time ago I looked into this more 
in details, but what about the reset of the printer for example? Can we 
be sure this is done here? I am sure I have seen problems with this 
before, but I forgotten exactly under which circumstances. (It might not 
be under MS Windows.)

Does someone has a good link to an overview of the printer reset, entry 
points to the printer queue etc on MS Windows?