printing thru GoToMyPc

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting GCC (Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:22:00 -0400):
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> This still begs the question - setting pfprinter=gotomypc hardcopy of a
> screen worked fine.  However pressing <F> and selecting a form to print
> did not.

That's because, as you already pointed out, the output format had a
destination printer embeded in it.

> When I removed the defined printer name from the output format,
> everything printed at my remote printer.

Correct.

> Should pfprinter=xxxxxx override a defined printer on an output when set
> in a calling batch file?

No, PFPRINTER will never override the printer defined in the format.

> As to the suggestion of using win:\\computername\gotomypc etc is really
> not a good solution.  The purpose of using GoToMyPC is to allow on to
> access a PC remotely from a web browser.  Therefore it is possible to
> be at different computers and accessing ones computer.  Now granted
> there can be a problem with printers if the remote printer doesn't
> speak PCL.

And how would you print to the local printer otherwise?  How would you
tell MS-Word, for example, to print to the local printer?

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