I have an HP Deskjet printer which I have set up using CUPS. It has always functioned fine, and I can use lp to print without any problems, and openoffice, browsers and such work just fine. However, I use Emacs and would like to be able to print from within that app, and it uses lpr, which I have never installed. I had wondered if that would cause problems or have conflicts, but I was able to install it with aptitude seemingly without error. But, even though everything seemed okay, when I tried using lpr for printing it did not work.
Initially it would simply retort with "lpr: lp: unknown printer." I "seemed" to fix that by setting the variable PRINTER to my printer. However, that just made it fail silently. When I looked at the status of the printer with "lpc status" it said that the jobs were queued, but that it was waiting for my computer to "come up." I had no idea what this was about, as lpd was running and lpr seemed to be taking jobs. So, what I am wondering is if it is the CUPS way I have been doing things that has caused the problems, and if so can that be worked around? It would seem that CUPS cannot easily be uninstalled on my system as so much depends on it. Could my problem be that lprng is not installed? This also cannot be fixed easily as it conflicts with CUPS. If nothing else, maybe somebody knows how to convince emacs to print without using lpr? Many thanks for any possible suggestions which anyone can make. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
