Re: Printer definition

[Ed Reingold]

The problem is that, for some reason, the flag to the lpr command was
set to "-d"
instead of  "-P" even though Emacs knows it's a Unix-like system
(Solaris).  Debugging
this meant going through the ELisp code in lpr.el and ps-print.el,
something that I
should never have had to do.

On May 2, 2:10 pm, Ed Reingold <edward.reing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot get the default printer/command working!  I tried the
> following:
>
>         /usr/local/emacs-23.3/bin/emacs -q -l em23-printer-test
>
> where the file em23-printer-test contains the two lines
>
>       (setq printer-name "HP4050HM_FDx")
>       (setq lpr-command "lpr")
>
> and then try to print a buffer, but nothing happens.  When I do
>
>        lpr -PHP4050HM_FDx .login
>
> in a shell, it works fine.  What am I doing wrong?  I have the same
> problems
> when trying to use ps-print.