If memory servers me correctly I think that I discovered
the same thing years ago using a DOS version of R:BASE.
But I think if you use SHOW rather thanWRITE it sends the
information to the printer. SHOW should work correctly. I
remember attempting to send control characters to the
printer and WRITE would not do it but by stroing the
character strings in a variable and then SHOW VAR
(SOMETHING) it would work.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:27:35
-0400 tellef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
>
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Bob Powell
The Hotchkiss School
Lakeville, Connecticut
Systems Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
