end of field marker

[John Esak]

Well, folks here would need a bunch more info to help you out.  What
operating system Windows or Linux  (or SCO)?  Type of printer... maybe... 

But, generally, the O?S has a printer subsystem that will arrange the
printer spool for you. It doesn't matter whether it is on parallel or serial
or network... this is configured when you set it up.  

As to using PFOUTS this is a little confusing... yes PFOUTS is for serial
ports, but not for "printing".  It is more for use with modems and file
transfers between systems, etc.   I think it is only used with the OUTS
command. FilePro will not incorporate anything relating to PFOUTS when it
prints.  It merely hands a job to the printer spooling system... and that
will not look at PFOUTS either.  If you are on *nix, setting up the serial
port is a little configuring job you need to do... if you are on Windows,
and since you call it a COM port I'm guessing you are... it is defaulted to
a standard that most printers will use readily.

You can specify LPT1 in the Windows filePro print manager... I'm guessing
you would use COM1 or COM2, honestly, I don't remember.


There will be many people who rmember serial epsons and such and how to
manage them in filePro... probably Epsonfx print table... and they will
help, but they need to know the other info about your system.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: George [mailto:flowersoft at compuserve.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:35 AM
> To: john at valar.com
> Subject: RE: end of field marker
> 
> Did not know that PFEOF variable was available.  Thanks!
> 
> Maybe you can help me with this question.
> 
> I have a customer who purchased a serial 40-column printer from ebay and
> it
> came with no installation disk.
> How can I print to it from filePro?
> Assuming that it is connected to COM1, how do I set it up in the printer
> maintenance table 'Destination File'?
> Just as COM1?
> Do I also have to have PFOUTS set to something like 1,9600,8,N,1?
> Thanks and thanks for the tip!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-
> bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com]
> On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:47 PM
> To: 'Scott Nelson'
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: end of field marker
> 
> 
> It's not in FacetWin, but in the termcap. You set GZ to be what you
> want....
> 
> 
> GZ=\E[10m.
> 
> For the ansi termcap this sets it to a period, my personal favorite.  You
> could change the period to a comma, a ?, a % a # , pretty much whatever
> you
> like inlcluding funny graphics.
> 
> In Windows there is an environment variable PFEOF  end-of-field marker.
> Set it to various values to get various characters.   PFEOM=46 makes it a
> nice unobtrusive period.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf
> > Of Scott Nelson
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:18 PM
> > To: filePro Mailing List
> > Subject: end of field marker
> >
> > Does anyone remember how to change the end of field marker using SCO, fp
> > 5.0.14, and Facetwin?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott
> >
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