dreport -p flag in Win XP

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Del (Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:56:09 -0500):

> 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?.
[...]

Apparently there is an error in both the fPTech documentation and in
Laura's Quick Reference Guide.  (Or at least a poorly-worded entry.)
Perhaps it's meant to convey that, under *nix, you can specify a
pipe for the destination, as in:

   -p "| ghostprint"

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