On 28/01/2014 20:59, Charles Stevenson wrote:
Anthony pretty much nailed how we're doing it.
But my original question is still unanswered.
I want to make sure it's a valid printer before I start printing to it.
I think I problably need to do something like
EXECUTE "DOS /C [some-command] \\MY_PRINT_SERVER\PrinterName"
CAPTURING DOSMSG
IF DOSMSG = [something bad] THEN . . .
I was hoping someone in this august body had crossed that bridge before.
We never had that problem.
I had a PRINTER subroutine or suchlike that accessed a printers file
with all the parameters. Any programatic (or user command line) attempt
to access a printer was via my stuff, that checked this file, and set
things up accordingly.
So as far as eg accounts was concerned, they had the ACCOUNTS printer.
Whenever anything changed, I simply changed the ACCOUNTS entry in the
parameter file. Very useful, because on the odd occasion when a printer
went down I just made a temporary change to the file and everything got
diverted :-)
If tyou're interested, let me know and I'll see if I can find the code -
I know I had it but it's a long time ago ...
Cheers,
Wol
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