On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Dianne Ackerman wrote: > I have some documents that were created by users using html editors (different > kinds) which then were saved into uv files. I want to read in these documents > from within a basic program and send them to the printer, all nicely > formatted. Any ideas? The reason I'm doing it from basic is because I have a > lot of other data that I'm working with also, the html files are just a small > part of it. Thanks.
The following assumes your system runs on a Unix/Linux/etc. server. If the user is connecting through a terminal emulator, you can use a file transfer protocol, such as Zmodem, to move a file to the user's PC. Then, depending on the emulator, you should be able to tell the emulator to tell the Windows shell to "print" the document -- the equivalent of doing a right-click and selecting "print" in Windows Explorer. Getting it to print on a particular printer is more challenging -- this is equivalent to dragging the file to a printer shortcut on the desktop. In Windows terminology it's called "printto". Since I bring this up, you can probably guess that our terminal emulator, AnzioWin, handles this very well :-) If you'd prefer not to go through the emulator, we also offer Print Wizard. It can act as a print server on a Windows PC, receive jobs, and pass them off to Windows to print according to file extension. Feel free to contact me off list. Regards, ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [email protected] company e-mail: [email protected] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
