-PT or printer local

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Dennis Malen wrote:

> I am having trouble printing to a local printer on a PC or a wyse thin client.
>
> I am on UNIX AIX and using filepro 4.8. The PC's and thin clients are
> connected to the UNIX box by the ethernet connection with the use of IP
> addresses.
>
> I have attempted to use both -PT on the menu line and PRINTER LOCAL in
> the processing. Neither seems to work.
>
> When requested from the PC I get a fast display of the report which is
> never delivered to the attached printer. When used with the Thin Client
> I get the printer to start to blink and it gets hung up. When the
> printing is forced on the thin client I get the report a bit jumbled and
> not in any format I would want.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Make sure the termcap file, for whatever terminal type you're using,
contains entries for PN and PS. If not, and your terminal type is ANSI or
SCOANSI or similar, copy the PN and PS entries from the VT220 entry in
that same file.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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