Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:25:13 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP Zip Picker
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On 24 Aug 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Also trying out Emacs. Very powerful and customizable, it seems. And yes,
> it IS a freaking operating system! :-) One thing, the pretty-print option
> seems to want an executable called 'gs'... where is this

Do you have a PostScript printer?  If so, you don't need Ghostscript
(that's what `gs' stands for).  You need to set `dos-ps-printer' to
name the port where that printer is connected, like so:

     (setq dos-ps-printer "PRN")

Just put this in your _emacs file.  Some further docs about this (as
well as other DOS specifics in Emacs) can be seen in the Emacs on-line
manual (type `C-h i 2 6', where C-h means Ctrl-h); the printing issues
are under the "Printing" section there.

If your printer does NOT support PS, then you will need to download a
DOS port of Ghostscript.  There is no DJGPP-compiled port, so you will
have to look around.  One word of caution: the port that I used (from
Aladdin) needed DOS4GW and would crash under Emacs if the DPMI host
was CWSDPMI.  QDPMI was OK, and so were Windows, I think.