Redirecting program hardcopies to another printer

[John Esak]

Oh, I thought the -p filw  was something everyone knew about. I do this a
lot just to go into clerk and print a few browse screens as a quick report
formatter. :-)

You would have to put a - to hold the position of the filename...

rcabe - -p /tmp/cabe_output.txt

or something like that on the Define Processing menu line for him. Or use
one of the printer environment variables in front of rcabe so Hardcopy would
go to that file.

John

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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
Mike Schwartz (PC Support)
  Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:17 PM
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  Subject: RE: Redirecting program hardcopies to another printer


  (top posted for John)



       Well, I told him that if he would fly me down to Florida for the
weekend, I'm sure I could troubleshoot this for him.  <grin>  I'm still
waiting for more info from the customer, but I wasn't aware that "p
/tmp/filename" would work behind dcabe or rcabe.  I'll ask him to try that.



       It may be something odd that he's doing in terms of printer
redirection inside his menus or something where he got his financial reports
print to Florida OK, but he doesn't know how to use the same settings in the
dpromenu.



  Thanks!



  Mike




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  I don't see why he can't just put  "-p /tmp/filenmae" on his menu for
rcabe and the like.  Then print the files if he realy wants them.  Actually,
I don't see any difference between printing from the filePro programs  to
printing the reports from filePro programs?  Is he just forgetting to
redirect the output where he wants it?  I mean, if he has a local printer
that is printing the regular outputs why can't he use one of the filePro
printer variables to send the output of the programs to the same printer?
I'm missing this one entirely.



  John



    -----Original Message-----
    From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
Mike Schwartz
    Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:29 AM
    To: 'Fplist (E-mail)'
    Subject: Redirecting program hardcopies to another printer

         filePro 5.0.?, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.??, Anzio 15.? and
Go-To-My-PC (current version).



         I have a customer who will be spending some extended time in
Florida this winter.  He wants to do some filePro programming while he is
down there.



         He setup his laptop so that he can use Go-to-my-pc to connect back
to his office here in Wisconsin.  Using PFPRINTER and so forth, he was able
to re-direct his financial report printouts to his local desktop machine.
>From there his go-to-my-PC program routes them to his laptop printer down in
Florida just fine.  However, when he wants to hardcopy a processing table
and hits "Y" to the "Hardcopy?" question in dcabe or rcabe, the code and
variable cross-reference print out on a printer back in Wisconsin.  (He didn
't tell me whether they go to the local printer attached to his desktop
machine or whether they are going to his main Linux printer.)



         Seems to me that there was some other variable that he needs to set
in order to get the program printouts to go to a different printer, but I
don't recall what that was.



    Thanks!



    Mike Schwartz


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