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Article #3582Re: changing the printer that lpr-region sends to
From: Avishai Yacobi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:17
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:17
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In article <EJH.93Jan21151724@khonshu.colorado.edu>, ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
|>
|> 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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Well, the last thing to try is:
(setq lpr-switches '("-Ptj"))
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Newsgroups: comp.emacs Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!panther!mothost!lmpsbbs!mcil.comm.mot.com!avishaiy From: avishaiy@mcil.comm.mot.com (Avishai Yacobi) Subject: Re: changing the printer that lpr-region sends to Organization: Motorola Communications Israel Ltd., Tel Aviv Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:17:25 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan27.071725.11363@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> References: <EJH.93Jan21151724@khonshu.colorado.edu> Sender: avishaiy@comm.mot.com (Avishai Yacobi) Nntp-Posting-Host: 145.9.71.3 Lines: 42