Questions about fpodbc

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Aug 26 10:02 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, 
Nancy Palmquist sent this to stdout: 

> Rick Hane wrote:

> >Last night we installed fpODBC 1.0.13 on our win 2000 pro
> >network. The install went very well. The configuration of fp
> >we installed is a 5 user development and a 16 user runtime.
> >Now for the questions.

> >1. Printers... Being on a network we have 9 laser printers,
> >various flavors of HP. Since when using fpodbs users call a
> >batch file from the server (via a mapped drive) how do I point
> >a given user to a specific network printer? Yes I can create
> >them in pmaint but what tells fp that user A is to print to
> >printer B. NOTE: Each user has a specific and unique batch
> >file they call. Do I use a set pfprinter command in each users
> >batch file?

> Printing in filePro is a complex question. If userA always
> prints to Printer1, then adding the PFPRINTER variable is the
> way to go. If UserA likes to print to different printers for
> different things, add -pq to the menus and let UserA pick the
> printer for each print job.

I approached that in an different way.   I set the PFPRINTER
variable in the autoexec.bat file for each user.  Then I also had a
menu item that permitted them to change their printer, and
described the destination printer fully, instead of the often
quirky naming conventions used for printers.

IOW the choice could be "Laser Printer in Linda's Office",
"Dot Matrix Printer for Reports", "Big Laser printer with
letterhead" etc..

Bill
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