> 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
Yes all their programs use OUTPUT PRINTER. We tried it from the r>
prompt also. Doing OUTPUT PRINTER, WRITE "HELLO", NEW, OUTPUT SCREEN
only shoots out a blank. (I'm sorry I didn't mention in my previous email
that I WAS putting a "new" after every command; several people thought that
might be my problem.) Doing this to my brand new LaserJet works fine.
It appears to be a difference with her "very cheap" (her words) Lexmark
ink jet.
Dennis McGrath suggested doing OUT LPT1 and seeing if that helps. I
confess
I didn't try that -- will do so and let you know if it makes a difference.
>Another good test is to do a DIR > LPT1
>at a DOS prompt and see if that works.
>Again, you'd have to send a page feed if
>the DIR isn't long enough.
>Scott
That was one of the first things I tried. When it worked fine, that's when
I realized that it wasn't the printer not recognizing dos at all.
>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.
>Bob Powell
Now there's an idea I haven't tried either. Just for giggles I think
I'll have her try SHOW VAR instead. If it does work (and changing
OUTPUT PRINTER to OUTPUT LPT1 doesn't) then it would be a HUGE job to
fix their programs because as I mentioned every report is done with
WRITE-ing variables that would have to be replaced with showing variables!
Karen
