dreport spools output to wrong printer

[Joe Chasan]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:01:54AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Brian K. White (Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:27:54 -0400):
> [...]
> > Although pressing F6 to select the printer in define output shows you a
> > list of types as well as printers, you need to select a printer not a
> > type that's only a type.
> 
> You can select a printer type here.  As long as you have a printer
> defined with that type, filePro will use it.
> 
> > I used to think it was a way to hard code the print code table without
> > hard coding the the physical destination, until the first time I
> > actually tried to do it and got an error about no such printer, using
> > default.
> 
> That's because you told it to use a printer type for which there was no
> printer defined.

but how is that useful in a situation where you have a dozen local
printers, or perhaps you have a single physical printer that you may 
use with different print code tables based on other criteria.

many times when i've set a printer type on an output format and gotten
that message it served no use other than to annoy me - after all, i did
have a physical printer or printers in mind to match with the table on
the form so why should fp argue with me?

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