From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 18:39:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02716 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA02643 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:38:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 30398 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1998 02:38:32 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 15 Jan 1998 02:38:32 -0000 Received: from barnowl.roost.net (apm3-145.realtime.net [205.238.146.145]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA16987; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:38:29 -0600 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:43:08 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl.roost.net To: stephen farrell cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: printing from emacs In-Reply-To: <87hg77f9u9.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Thanks for the comeback! I'm using emacs 19.34b from the ports (2.2.1R). Yep, lpr from a shell works like a champ. It uses print-buffer as the command and guess what? It passes the buffer through pr! Which I don't use 'cause my old printer does not like it and I don't either. Thanks, again, for the input. I know what to do now! John On 14 Jan 1998, stephen farrell wrote: > John Kenagy writes: > > > I give up! > > > > It seems so simple, or should be. I can print with the spooler (lpr) > > just fine from the shell, within emacs from dired operations menu, > > postscript print the buffer, but *not* just "print buffer". > > > > That is the simple lpr buffer from the tools menu. I can set lpr > > switches , etc. but nothing happens when I print the buffer. > > I mean nothing. > > > > Any ideas where to look? > > What version of emacs (or xemacs) are you using? Can you print any > file from the shell with lpr, or only postscript ones? Under xemacs, > the "print buffer" calls lpr-buffer (which I assume is similar to > print-buffer, but might be slightly different)--what function does > yours call? (you should be able to do C-h k and then pull down the > menu to get the function name, unless that's an xemacsism and you're > using fsf emacs...) > > Why do you want to do that anyway? > -- > > Steve Farrell > > >