dreport -p flag in Win XP

[Del]

Ken:

Ok, thanks.  I will try this tomorrow when the users are in the office.

How did I make such a mistake?  Well, I have not used that parameter for 
quite a while, and I looked it up in the filepro manual, under flags for 
request output.  I admittedly was in a hurry, and the first -p flag 
mentioned says (I quote):

    -P name     Selects the printer name.

Well, that certainly SOUNDED like what I wanted so I used it.  Looking 
further now, there is another line that says:
    -P file       Selects the file to put the output.

and then another that says:
    -PN name     Sets the printer name.

Well, even now that you have explained my error, the doc on the -p flag 
still looks confusing to me - and the difference between the -p name and -pn 
name is also not all that clear.  What is the difference between "selecting" 
the printer name and "setting" the printer name?.

Del



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Del" <del at altsystem.com>
Cc: "Filepro List" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: dreport -p flag in Win XP


> Quoting Del (Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:41:58 -0500):
> [...]
>> TXT file).  I defined this printer to filepro (on "server") in the
>> printer table as :
>>
>>     matrix:PAN1092:WIN:\\FREDS_PC\OKiML320
>>
>> (There is no printer table for the oki 320, but I was told that they
>> have always used PAN1092 and it works.)
>>
>> I used the share name for the printer in the filepro printer table
>> (OKiML320).  I put "-p matrix" in my dreport command line to try to
>> force the output for all users to go to the okidata.  The result was, no
>> error message, but nothing printed (I was logged in to "server" remotely
>> using remote desktop).
>
> You told filePro to print to a file called "matrix".
>
> If you want to print to the _printer_ named "matrix", then you need
> to use "-pn matrix".
>
> [...]
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