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changing the printer that lpr-region sends to

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From: Edward J. Hartnett
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:17
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I hope this isn't too stupid a question, but I just added a printer to
my Sun ( a thinkjet) and I still have my old connection to the laser
printer over the network, which is where something will be sent if I
use the lpr command. To print on my thinkjet I need to use the command
lpr -Ptj FILE.

What I would like to do is change the way the lpr-buffer prints to
send it to the thinkjet.

From the info section:
   All the hardcopy commands pass extra switches to the `lpr' program
based on the value of the variable `lpr-switches'.  Its value should
be a list of strings, each string a switch starting with `-'.  For
example, the value could be `("-Pfoo")' to print on printer `foo'.

So I tried to add the following line to my .emacs:
(setq lpr-switches ("-Ptj"))

I also tried:
(setq lpr-switches `("-Ptj")')   -- this is what the info file says
(setq lpr-switches `("-Ptj"))    -- this seemd to make sense to me


But none of these worked. Can anyone tell me how to set this string?
Also how would I add the -h option so it doesn't print a banner page?

Thanks.
--
	Don't blame me, I voted against Amendment 2!

Edward Hartnett				ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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