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Re: [h-e-w] Printing with V20.7
From: |
Michael W Daniels |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Printing with V20.7 |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Sep 2002 20:58:41 -0400 |
>I am running emacs 20.7 under Windows 98. lpr-command
>is a null string. printer-name had been "PRN".
>Changing that to "LPT1" produces an error. Changing
>it to "LPT1:" returns the symptoms to those with
>"PRN". The new printer is the default printer. The
>drivers for the old printer remain present, but the
>device is not connected.
What happens if you type
type filename.txt > prn
at a Command prompt?
I had a situation where this worked, but printing from emacs didn't. So I
just wrote a batch file that contained
type %1 > prn
and told emacs to print through that.
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