Re: 20.3 on Windows/95: "print-buffer" problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:42:52 +0100
> 
> By default "printer-name" is set to "PRN", and thus "print-buffer" 
> produces an error like "c:/something/PRN: so such file or directory".
> Experimenting I found out that setting "printer-name" to "/PRN:" 
> invokes ange-ftp 8-), while "/PRN" works.

Thank you for your report.

I believe this is a known problem with the Windows port of Emacs 20.3,
it is solved in later versions.

> BTW: Traditionally many printers expect DOS (CP850 or similar) charset, 
> while Emacs typically uses ISO-8859. It would be nice if printing could 
> convert the charset...

Emacs 20.3 doesn't support DOS codepages.  In Emacs 20.4 or later, you
can type "C-x RET c cp850 RET" before invoking "M-x lpr-buffer", and
then Emacs will do the conversion for you.