23.0.50; ps-print-buffer-with-faces hangs on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Emacs hangs in direct-print-region-helper in the call to

  (write-region start end printer t 0)

at the end of the function. Emacs is completely hanged. I have to kill 
Emacs from Windows Task Manager.

On my pc (Windows XP pro) printer has here got the value C:\PRN. That 
value has nothing to do with my printer, which is a Windows printer.

To reproduce this do for example

  emacs -Q
  M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces

on a pc with a Windows printer (the probably most common form of printer 
on a w32 pc today).


In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-01-04 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>
p i <backspace> s - p r o i n t <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> i n t - b u f f e r - w i t
h - f a c e s SPC h a n g s SPC o n SPC w 3 2 <return>
i <backspace> T h <backspace> <backspace> E m a c s
SPC h a n g s SPC i n SPC C-v k k <backspace> <backspace>
<escape> k k k <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
C-w C-x k <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
Warning: no fonts matching `-*-dejavu sans 
mono-normal-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times]
Warning: no fonts matching 
`-*-opensymbol-normal-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times]
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
kill-region: The mark is not set now, so there is no region