Printing on XP

[Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody
> 
> I have just uploaded two programs to celestial.com's ftp server that
> exercise the Windows printing API calls used in filePro.
> 
> The URLs to download are
>     ftp://ftp.celestial.com/pub/filepro-list/testprt4.zip
[snip]

>     testprt4 "printer name"

	I'm trying to use this on a Windows 2000 workstation running filePro
for windows 5.0.13 with the command:

testprt4 "Brother HL-1440 series on D6LMPT11"

and testprt4 gives me the response:

Calling OpenPrinter(Brother HL-1440 series on D6LMPT11)

Error number: 1801
Error message:
The printer name is invalid.

I've used testprt4 and 5 successfully in the past.  I did type the name a
couple of times very carefully, with and without the quotes.  The printer is
active on the network, and I'm able to send a page to it. I'm trying to set
it up as a filePro printer, and I was just looking for the shorter // name
for the printer.  

I really hate the way Windows 2000 comes up with such a long printer name
when you map a network printer.  As far as I can tell, Windows 2000 won't
let me change this name to something shorter.

Thanks,

Mike Schwartz