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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: changing the printer that lpr-region sends to
- Message-ID: <EJH.93Jan21151724@khonshu.colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:17:24
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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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