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Karen, at the risk of attempting to teach you to suck
eggs, could you put all the printers - their names, paths, shares, users,
whatever - in a table and replace your hard-coded names with a "run
printer_setup.cmd"?
Then, when somebody wants a change you only have to
change the table. It might sound like hard work now but if you get the
table and the program right you should be able to do a search and replace in
your current programs.
Good luck,
Regards,
Alastair.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 7:05
PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Win XP/98
printing
A client of mine has all 98 workstations on
W2K server. Running
RBWin 6.5++
They have more printers than
Mrs. Paul has fish sticks (my mother's
saying). Certain forms are
always loaded in certain printers, certain
trays. So my programs are
loaded with statements like:
PRNSETUP 'HP Laser Sales' or PRNSETUP
'Dot Matrix consignment',
etc. Printer names are very descriptive so
in case I do a regular
PRNSETUP where they can choose, the uneducated users
can figure
out which printer to choose.
Now they want to start
replacing some of the older computers with new
Win XP ones. We tried
this is one of her new laptops and found out that,
if I'm right (that's
what I want YOU to tell me), even though the descriptive
name as above may
show up in the PRNSETUP box, it returns the
"Shared Name", which is a small
one-word deal. And it will also put the
server on there, so picking a
printer would return something like
\\servername\HPLASER.
So with
literally hundreds of programs with hard coded printer destinations,
what
would involve the least amount of programming to let both OSs
get
along? Is anyone out there doing
it?
Karen
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