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Re: changing the printer that lpr-region sends to

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From: Avishai Yacobi
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
|> 

-- 
Well, the last thing to try is:
(setq lpr-switches '("-Ptj"))
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Subject: Re: changing the printer that lpr-region sends to
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:17:25 GMT
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