Thanks for the suggestion. NET USE LPT1: \\servername\printername is used (I think) to redirect a print job from the physical LPT1 device to a network printer. In this case I have an okidata printer on COM1 and a laser on LPT1. The RBase printer is set to OKIDATA1.
R> output printer R> dir R> output screen Simply causes rbase to lock up with no return to the R> after the 3rd command. No info to the printer, not even garbage. If I remember correctly R:Base really prints to the logical device PRN and there was some DOS level command that would redirect PRN to a physical device LPT1, COM1, etc. (It might have been a command that redirected LPT1 to LPT2, COM2, etc.) It is my understanding that NT does not handle output to PRN well, which is what causes this type problem to begin with. I remember doing this a number of years ago, how quickly we forget :-) Michael Michael Moser EXAQ Micro Services www.exaq.com Phone: 916-768-7656 Fax: 916-966-8313 >> The DOS command is: >> NET USE LPT1: /DELETE >> NET USE LPT1: \\servername\printername >> At 12:59 PM 1/7/2004 -0800, you wrote: >> >Happy New Year everyone! >> > >> >Typical story -- State client working happily on RBase program written >> years ago on Windows 98 system. Hard disk crashes. Computer replaced with >> Windows 2000. We are converting to R:Base for Windows but the conversion >> will not be completed for a couple of months and end of year processing, >> auditors, .... >> > >> >I remember that there is a DOS level printer redirection command for PRN >> that was used for R:Base for DOS with Windows NT and it seems that it >> worked >> for 2000 as well but I can't seem to remember it or find it. >> > >> >Anyone remember that or have a solution for printing from R:Base 6.5 DOS >> under windows 2000? >> > >> >Thanks! >> >Michael >> > >> > >> >Michael Moser >> >EXAQ Micro Services >> >www.exaq.com >> >Phone: 916-768-7656 >> >Fax: 916-966-8313 >> > >> >
