I can recall in the past others used windows RBase to print DOS Rbase data to counter this same scenario.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rbase7" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:38 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a Thin Client or Remote Desk Top Actually, you have helped a lot! Now I know what won't work. Could I print to a folder, one per printer, and have some other app monitor the folder and print the files as they are sent to the folder? Mike On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:37 PM, "Mike Byerley" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > I set up RB76 DOS on the server without any success at printing. It > looks > like since MS has done away with the complete DOS subsystem that used to > be > on NT4 and went to the ntvdm.exe, the Windows NT DOS Virtual Machine, it > is > without all the accoutrements of the previous DOS subsystem, one of those > being able to access the printer ports in the fashion that RBDOS uses. > > Sorry. No help from me on this. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael J. Sinclair" <[email protected]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:45 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a Thin > Client or Remote Desk Top > > > I am not sure if this makes any difference, but the server I am using is a > "Hyper V 32 bit virtual Server" running on a Windows 2008 64 bit server. > Mike > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:34 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a Thin > Client or Remote Desk Top > > I would think so. Is the printer you are trying to print to local to your > machine or local to your network? I can try to duplicate it tomorrow and > see what gives. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael J. Sinclair" <[email protected]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:25 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a Thin > Client or Remote Desk Top > > > I can print from the command prompt window and from the property page of > the > printer. > > Does that mean I should be able to print from with Rbase for DOS? > Mike > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:15 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a Thin > Client or Remote Desk Top > > Have you determined you can print to your local printer from the Property > Page of the remote printer? > > IIRC, you must have the same driver on the local machine as the Remote to > print, but before I would go through all the gyrations within RBase, I > would > first determine if you can actually print at all (if you have not already > done so). > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kenny Camp" <[email protected]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:49 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a Thin > Client or Remote Desk Top > > > : Too long since DOS :-) > : > : try R> zip cmd /c copy file.txt \\server\sharename > : > : > : > : or > : > : > : > : set v vcmd text = 'zip cmd /c copy file.txt \\server\sharename' > : > : &vcmd > : > : > : > : From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael > J. > : Sinclair > : Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:03 PM > : To: RBASE-L Mailing List > : Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a > Thin > : Client or Remote Desk Top > : > : > : > : Hi Kenny, > : > : In Rbase for DOS, trying to print to \\server_name\printer_name does not > : work, what I get is ... > : > : > : > : -ERROR- Cannot create destination file. (2086) > : > : > : > : Mike > : > : > : > : _____ > : > : From: Kenny Camp <[email protected]> > : To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > : Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:43 PM > : Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a > Thin > : Client or Remote Desk Top > : > : Try R> copy filename.txt \\server\sharename > : > : > : > : From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael > J. > : Sinclair > : Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 6:24 PM > : To: RBASE-L Mailing List > : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing in Rbase for DOS on a Server from a Thin > : Client or Remote Desk Top > : > : > : > : I would like to try run Rbase for DOS on a 32 bit server, and access the > : program using a Thin Client or Remote Desk Top. > : > : I tried it, and it works fine, but not for printing. > : > : > : > : Everything I tried failed. > : > : > : > : OUTPUT LPT1; PRINT reportname; OUTPUT SCREEN > : > : OUTPUT LPT1; TYPE filename; NEWPAGE; OUTPUT SCREEN > : > : COPY filename PRN > : COPY filename LPT1 > : > : NET USE indicates that LPT1/2/3 are indeed mapped to network printers > : I am able to copy files to the LPT1/2/3 from a command prompt window, so > I > : think the printers are working. > : > : What am I doing wrong? > : > : Mike > : > : > : > : > : > : > >
