Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I will try, but is there any technical reason to assume that this works 
> > differently?
> >    
>
> I don't know, it's hard to tell without taking a good look at how your
> printers are configured on that specific system.
>  
As you know I am using for a general solution. I can personally get 
around this problem in a number of ways.

> > I guess I can then do
> >
> >   copy file.txt lpt2
> >
> > or should not this work too?
> >    
>
> It should.
>  
Thanks.

> > It was a long time ago I looked into this more in details, but what
> > about the reset of the printer for example?
> >    
>
> What ``reset of the printer''? what does that have to do with this
> thread?  We were talking about printing text; by contrast, Reset is a
> command that you send via some kind of managerial interface that has
> nothing to do with Emacs or its way to send text to the printer.
> Please don't make a mistake of taking Ilya's deliberations seriously.
>  
I have seen setups where the networked printer was left in some 
PostScript mode after printing. What I was trying to say was that I do 
not know if you bypass the part of the printer setup that resets it 
(from for example PostScript mode) when you access it the way above. But 
I can surely imagine that the ability to do such setups was a bug that 
is gone now. However I do not know the state of this today. That is what 
I am asking about.

It may seem crazy, but I have seen it happen and have had a lot of 
trouble with it. IMO this type of bad design happens because those 
responsible does not understand or does not know all the possibilities.