DOS printing from FP menu

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 07:07P Wed Oct 05 2005, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> Quoting John Esak (Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:45:55 -0400):
> [...]
> > I believe Jim has tried putting it in a batch file, etc. No joy. Even
> > putting it in a filePro SYSTEM command doesn't work... yet the very same
> > EXACT command works from the DOS command line. So ignoring the "other"
> > ways of doing it, which did fix his problem... he (and I) would still
> > like to know why this is happening.
> 
> This works just fine on my XP box.  Perhaps it's specific to 2003?
> 
>     SYSTEM "print /? & pause"
> 
> I get the print command usage message followed by "press any key to
> continue".

On 2003, it returns the "error" that...

PRINT is an unknown command etc. etc.     wierd!

But from the command line it behaves as you suggest.


Jim 
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