Printer Control

[Brian K. White]

On 8/11/2010 1:06 PM, Rodgers Hemer wrote:
> filePro 5.0.14/SCO 5.07
>
> I want to set destination printers on a work group basis.  I would like to avoid having to set the printer in the output format as a report may be requested by more than one work group.  Placing PFPRT in the user's .profile pointing to the applicable filePro printer did not work, resulting in the following  message:
>
> ***A SYSTEM ERROR HAS OCCURED***
> Cannot open print command
> adminprt: Permission denied
>
> What is the proper method to achieve the intended result?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodgers Hemer
> 206.523.2329
> r.hemer at w-link.net
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exoport PFPRINTER=printername in the users .profile.

A better answer but requires more programming work is to store such 
per-user settings in a filepro file that the users themselves can 
administer instead of having an operating system admin manually edit 
.profile files. The .profile variable will end up affecting all filepro 
apps without modifying any of them, but isn't very flexible or 
self-maintaining. Using a filepro file means the users can admin it, but 
you'd have to put code all over the place to look up the users settings 
and use printer "printername" commands and/or putenv 
"PFPRINTER","printername"  etc as appropriate.

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bkw