Fwd: Re: Printer selection

[Kenneth Brody]

(Oops.  Didn't cc the list.)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Printer selection
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:03:51 -0500
From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at verizon.net>

On 12/22/2010 5:45 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
[...]
>>> As I said, I have used the -p option with pr = "HP 1200dtn", I have
>>> moved the -p option from the end of the command line to just after
>>> -id.  Same problem when the debugger starts in sel_new,
>>> @pr=System_printer and not HP 1200dtn.
>>
>> Question:
>>
>>       What does this mean to dreport?
>>
>>           -p "HP 1200dtn"
>>
>>> Records are selected but nothing prints to either printer.
>>
>> I'd be willing to wager that the report was, in fact, sent to the
> destination you
>> selected.  The problem is that you didn't select what you thought you
>> selected.
>
> Filepro 5.6.10     Windows Server 2003    Workstation Windows XP service
> pack 3
>
> Ok Ken, here is the screen image

[... snip screenshots ...]

I wasn't disputing the value being passed to dreport's "-p" flag.  The
problem is that:

     -p "HP 1200dtn"

doesn't do what you think it does.  So, I repeat my question:

     What does this mean to dreport?

         -p "HP 1200dtn"

[...]
> I am expecting -p to have this report print to the HP 1200dtn as did the
> first.

Given that you have explicitly told filePro to go elsewhere, why would you
expect it to go to that printer?

-- 
Kenneth Brody