Passthrough Printing on FP 4.0

[Scott Walker]

Do you have PN=\E[5i    and PS=\E4i

Set in the termcap file for the terminal type they are using?

Also need to set PFPRTC=printer_type in the same place you are setting
PFPT.

Regards,


Scott


Scott Walker
RAM Systems Corp.
scottw1 at alltel.net
Ph: (704) 896-6549
Fx: (704) 896-7458


-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+scottw1=alltel.net at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+scottw1=alltel.net at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of John Locke
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:20 PM
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Passthrough Printing on FP 4.0

Hi,

I'm trying to support a client who's been using FilePro for quite a
while.
I'm no Filepro expert, but I do a lot in Linux. Over a year ago we moved
their FilePro 4.0 custom application over to SuSE 9.0, the newest Linux
release we could get it to run. They're unwilling to upgrade to a newer
Filepro due to the licensing changes--they tend to be logged in with
many
screens at once, so they would need a lot more user licenses than they
have users.

Anyway, in the past their shipping department had orders printing
through
a locally connected printer (to the terminal) rather than to the main
printer. Her .bashrc file has PFPT=on. I've managed to track down how to
get Anzio Light to do passthrough printing, and have this working for
general printing on her local printer from the server, with the help of
the Anzio white paper for passthrough printing.

However, I can't seem to get Filepro to print to her printer.

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).

Any hints? I've tried setting TERMCAP in her environment, along with
PFPT,
before starting FilePro...

Thanks,
-- 
John Locke
Manager, Freelock Computing
http://www.freelock.com
206-577-0540


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