From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Getting INFO M-x print-node to actually print? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:27:06 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 24 Message-ID: <335954CA.75FA@NO.SPAM.cs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp104.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > That `+' tells the DJGPP startup code that if the variable is defined > in the real environment, it overrides the value from DJGPP.ENV. It's > all in the docs (type "info know hidden djgpp"). > > Also note that since INFO_PRINT_COMMAND is passed to `popen', you > don't need the ugly backslashes, you can say "> c:/info.prn" (recall > that `popen' emulates redirection internally). Actually, since I thought about it, I ended up changing it to this: +INFO_PRINT_COMMAND=cat >info.prn That way the print file goes in the current directory. Thanks for the tip. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | | * Proud user of DJGPP! * | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | ObJoke: If Bill Gates were a robber, not only would he | | shoot you, but he'd send you a bill for the bullets. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------