Re: printing from within emacs

[Michael Slass]

Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:

>I'm having trouble printing to a remote printer from within emacs. The
>command I normally use from the cmd line is 'ssh host print'. How can
>I get emacs to use this command?
>
>Lowell

Check out docs for the variable lpr-command
,----[ C-h v lpr-command RET ]
| lpr-command's value is "lpr"
| 
| Documentation:
| *Name of program for printing a file.
| 
| On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, if the value is an empty string then
| Emacs will write directly to the printer port named by `printer-name'.
| The programs `print' and `nprint' (the standard print programs on
| Windows NT and Novell Netware respectively) are handled specially, using
| `printer-name' as the destination for output; any other program is
| treated like `lpr' except that an explicit filename is given as the last
| argument.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `lpr'.
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Mike Slass