Karen -
This may be a dumb question but are the WRITE commands preceded by
OUTPUT PRINTER in the application files? You don't really say. I have 2.11
apps here running under Win 9.x that use WRITE commands to a LaserJet and
they work just fine.
Bernie
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At 03:27 PM 9/18/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
>
