Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <address@hidden>
> Date: 15 Sep 2003 10:52:23 -0400
> 
> I think the C part of the code is fine and the use of `printer-name'
> is fine as well, but I wish that the use of default-printer-name could be
> confined to a single spot (in Unix, it's in `lpr' so Emacs doesn't know
> about it).  We probably need to create a function that either calls `lpr'
> or calls windows' printing code (using default-printer-name if necessary)
> and then have both lpr.el and ps-print.el use this function.

If I understand you correctly, we already have such a function in
lpr.el: it's `print-region-function'.  dos-w32.el defines it for the
Windows and the DOS ports.