Malkie,
The way your setup is currently configured, it sounds like you would
need to code your DP reports to create the DPSpool print job files in
the 'F:\DP23\DPSPOOL' directory. However, in DPSpool itself (which runs
outside of VDos), you would need to tell DPSpool to look for print job
files in the 'F:\DP26F\DP23\DPSPOOL' directory.
This is needed because you are mapping F: in VDos to a subfolder of the
real F: drive rather than the root folder F:\. So you have to account
for that when specifying the path. That can get confusing if you forget.
That's why I prefer to simply map the root to the root. That way all of
my paths are consistent whether I'm running inside or outside of VDos
(as long as those paths conform to the 8.3 standard).
Tim Rude
On 5/18/2015 12:01 AM, barmag wrote:
Hi Tim;
Thank you very much for your reply. Your autoexec and batch file looks similar
to the
ones I had in Win98. Somehow I find it more difficult to set up Dos files in
Win7 with
VDos.
Although Windows System32 is in C drive, my DP files are in F drive.
This is what I have in C:\VDOS\autoexec.txt
use f: f:\dp26f
use c: c:\
c:
cd vdos
dp f:\phonebk\personal
exit
------
And in F:\VDOSshell\autoexec.txt
use f: f:\dp26f
use c: c:\
f:
cd \vdosshell
shell
exit
DPspool is in F:\DP26F\DP23\dpspool
Hi Malkie,
I'm running DP under VDos on Win7-64 also, and I have it printing
through DPSpool. It works just fine.
The key is to configure VDos so that it can send output to a folder that
is available to programs running outside of VDos. That means the folder
name has to conform to the 8.3 standard. In my case, I set VDos to map
C: to the actual C: drive. Then I created a folder named C:\DPSPOOL.
That's where the DPSpool program is and where I have DP send its print
job files.
So my VDos 'autoexec.txt' file looks like this:
-----
USE C: C:\
PATH Z:\;C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
C:
CD \SHELL40
CALL GO.BAT
EXIT
-----
In the C:\SHELL40 folder, I have the WP-Shell program (which I run DP
under for the benefit of macros, etc.). The C:\SHELL40\GO.BAT file looks
like this:
-----
@echo off
C:
\DPSpool\DPSpool.exe GO
cd \SHELL40
MC.EXE /w=25 SHELL.COM
\DPSpool\DPSpool.exe FINISH
cls
-----
So the GO.BAT starts up DPSpool, then runs Shell (from which I run DP).
When I finish and exit from Shell, it automatically shuts down DPSpool.
If you don't want to run DP under Shell, you can adjust the GO.BAT file
to run DP directly instead.
Tim Rude
On 5/17/2015 4:11 PM, barmag wrote:
DataPerfect is working fine with VDos on Window7-64 bit but lately I'm having
some
trouble printing. In Win98 DPspool worked beautifully. Now I'm trying to run
DPspool
on Win7 but cannot figure out how to do it and how it "knows" to pick up the
file
from DP since I haven't used it for years,
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Malkie
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