Passthrough Printing on FP 4.0

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Simon--er, no...it was John Locke--said:
> This is a custom Filepro application, and it outputs different reports to
> different printers. This particular user needs all printing to go to her
> local printer instead. At some (indeterminate) time in the past, this
> worked, but it hasn't for a long time--not since at least the last
> migration to a new OS (it was on Red Hat before the current Linux, and on
> SCO before that).

This -should- be entirely OS-independant.  You're not dealing with
the print spooler of any particular OS, you're sending escape codes
zmodem-style to the terminal to get the passthrough printing.

That said, maybe there were differences in the termcaps for the respective
terminals on the OSes involved.  I would find that semi-plausible, but
there shouldn't be -major- differences.  Termcap (and terminfo) have
originated from the ncurses package since...well, a very, very, VERY long
time now.  I'm talking the actual termcap file, not libtermcap.  It's part
of the ncurses distribution.  That's standard on any linux system, and
tends not to vary a heck of a lot these days.  But it's possible someone
missed something for whatever terminal type you're using.

Double-check the termcap to make sure the appropriate escape sequences are
correct.

Incidentally, SuSE 9.0 went EOL on December 15, 2005.  If it's not
firewalled, you want to look at upgrading to something that's supported and
regularly patched.  The major things that need attention are sendmail (I
did a rebuild based on 8.12.11+patches against SuSE's rpm spec file), which
has a vulnerability, and apache of the latest vintage that SuSE released
for 9.0 has a mod_rewrite that's vulnerable to rewrites that have -very-
particular conditions associated with them (that most people probably
don't commonly use).  I'm holding some servers together with duct tape and
chicken wire until we can get them all moved to SLES10.  I can still make a
9.0 pass PCI compliance testing with the packages I'm using, let's put it
that way.  But that's with a little patching that goes beyond the last SuSE
9.0 official patches.

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