help with print code dictionary

[Laura Brody]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:39:08 -0800 (PST), T Crabtree <tcrabtree21 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> With much help from this list, I have successfully
> restored an old FilePro Plus system (FP Plus 16 v.
> 4.00) on a SCO UNIX machine (3.2v4.0y).
> I do have one lingering problem. When I try to print a
> report I get this error:
> WARNING: Cannot find print code dictionary for
> 'default' No print codes will be used.
>
> I do not know how to set up a default print code in
> FilePro. If I try to ENTER to continue, I get an error
> that it is processing and someone else is trying to
> use the file when I select the print option again.
>
> I've tried setting up a UNIX printer using sysadmsh,
> but this doesn't seem to have worked. It is a very old
> system and old version of SCO UNIX, so I'm not sure
> what to do.
>

	The first step is to make sure that SCO can print
to your printer. If you can't print from another program
or from the command line, you won't be able to print
 from filePro until this is fixed.

	Once you can print, you need to configure filePro
to go to your printer. Select 7-Printer Maintanence from
the main menu, then P-Printers. Read the on-line help
and enter a printer definition (only the first 3 fields
have to have something in them -- comments are optional).
A typical entry would look like this:

* main    HPLASER     lp -dyourprintername -s

(replace "yourprintername" with the printer name that
you created in SCO). Notice the "*" character. This
will automatically be placed on the first printer
definition entry (use F5 to change it). It tells
filePro to use THIS entry as the default filePro
printer.
-- 
Laura Brody, Publisher of the filePro Developer's Journal
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