Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:01:16 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >>Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:24:35 +0100
> >>From: LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> >>Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >>
> >>(default-printer-name) returns \\host-name\1234567890
> >>
> >>where host-name is the name where the printer queue is.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >And using this in Emacs as the value of `printer-name' (after escaping
> >the backslashes) fails to produce the printed matter, is that right?
> >
> Ehum, I did not test because it looks so very strange. I will try it 
> next week. Do you really expect something like that to work? I mean it 
> is exactly those figures I wrote above.

Do you mean that you already tried to use \\host-name\1234567890, the
value returned by (default-printer-name), as the value of
`printer-name', and it failed?  If so, then of course trying again the
same thing would be unnecessary.