Passthrough Printing on FP 4.0

[John Locke]

Hi, Bob,

Thanks for your response... answers below...

Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, John Locke wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>> ...
>> However, I can't seem to get Filepro to print to her printer.
>>     
>
> In addition to the suggestions that have already been made:
>
> 1. What terminal type are you having Anzio emulate?
>   
We have it set to scoansi, and also had to set the termname to that. In
the .bashrc file, however, the TERM environment variable was set to just
ansi. I tried it with this commented out, and it didn't seem to make any
difference.
> 2. Besides the OS's termcap file, you are at the mercy of filePro's
> termcap. Did you move that across, or reinstall from distribution media?
> It's possible that it's missing the necessary codes.
>   
I set the TERMCAP environment variable to the path to the Filepro
termcap. Before doing this, I could only get passthrough printing to
work by using the printf sequence in your white paper... after doing
this, I could get it to work with "tput mc5". I don't know much about
these terminal codes--is there something I would need to add to a
default termcap file for SuSE 9?
> 3. What DOES happen when you try to print? Does it go nowhere, or to the
> screen, or to another printer?
>
>   
It goes to the printer that these reports always go to... no passthrough
printing. This is an old enough version of Filepro that only PFPT should
be supported of the PFPT* variables... I also tried starting the various
Filepro programs with a --pt switch, but it kept erroring out, saying
the switch isn't supported.
> 4. In Anzio, if you turn on "Debug Printing" (in Edit:Advanced
> Options:General), you can at lease see if Anzio is getting some data, and
> where it goes from there.
>   
Okay... If the above info isn't enough to diagnose, I'll try to get back
to the site soon to see what it says...

Thanks,

-- 
John Locke
"Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems"
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