Windows printers

[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Richard Kreiss been jivin' 'bout like:
> Suggestion:
> 
> When setting the destination to win:some printer name, consider opening
> printers and faxes and going to the properties of the printer wanted.
> Highlight the name and right click copy.
> 
> Open filepro in a window.  Go to printer maintenance and press P.  Place the
> cursor In the destination section for that printer and right click the icon
> on the left of the title bar of the window.  Highlight <edit> and select
> paste.  This will copy in the windows name for the printer exactly (assuming
> of course that the complete name was highlighted).
> 
> Quick easy and no typo's.

And if that much access to the Win32 API was actually inherent to the
Windows version of filePro, you'd possibly actually have the start of a
-real- GUI version, rather than a console window DOS-ish version.

The conrols for dealing with that printer stuff are really far more
in-depth than just running fP in a console window.  I don't see this
feature being added anytime soon.  If one was to go that far, one may as
well go the rest of the way, which is quite possibly a lost cause at this
late date.  Putting in use of part of the GUI at just one or a few points
would just look like an ugly, unprofessional hodgepodge when stacked
against what's there currently.  At least as it is, there is the potential
for typos, there's more work, but there's also uniformity.

mark->
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