He's talking about the windows PRINT command which will print a file to any network printer. Unfortunately, MS got cute with PRINT and adds a FF which is dead stupid. If one wants a formfeed they can put it in the file! Or just print another file that has a formfeed in it. I had to tweak all my reports after NET USE went dead slow on us and I switched to PRINT.
Dennis McGrath -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Rose Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:59 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: NET USE VS PRINT I look at it this way. The copy software is sending the file thru a port---- very fast. With the print, the database is cranking away building the report and senting it piece by piece thru the network---- all that stop and go. RRR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:00 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - NET USE VS PRINT > Hi all, > > In Rbase for DOS, I have a report to print to a network printer. > I create the report and print it to a file. Then I want to send the file > to the network printer. > > The following code works... > zip net use lpt1 \\servername\print_que_name > copy filename.txt lpt1 > zip net use lpt1 /delete > > The following code gives an extra (unwanted) form feed... > zip print /d:\\servername\print_que_name filename.txt > > Why would there be a difference? > > Thanks > > Mike > > > !DSPAM:46523612315627787518299! > >
