Well, get this! Remember about a month ago I asked
about a 2.11 client trying to print to a new Lexmark
printer? Well I just found some interesting facts.
>From the r> prompt (and from applications), you can do
an 'output printer' and then successfully print a report
or select from a table. You can also create a file and
do a 'copy filename lpt1'. But if you try 'WRITE "HELLO"'
nothing comes out! No WRITE commands work!
This is fatal to them because the idiot programmer who
designed the system did it all with cursors and WRITE
commands. No defined reports even for the simplest of
lists. (I quickly created one report just to test, and
it works perfectly.) Obviously I'm not looking for a
solution (I told them I could change programs to write to
a file first), but at this point I'm interested in any
real techie out there that might know WHY the printer
recognizes everything but a 'write' command!
Karen
