Need a variable printer name for DOS/Windows filePro

[Richard Kreiss]

Top post. 

Windows may burp on the colons in @tm. 

Richard
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On Mar 29, 2013, at 4:21 PM, "Richard D. Williams" <richard at appgrp.net> wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> Try this.
> 
> if  : fa eq ""
> then: 
> dd(8,yymd)=@TD;tm(6)""{mid(@TM,"1","2"){mid(@TM,"4","2"){mid(@TM,"7","2");fa(50,,g)="/appl/fpmerge/"{dd{tm;printer 
> file (fa)
> 
> 
> Don't forget to issue the printer reset command when you are done. i.e
> 
> @DONE if:
>               then: printer reset
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/29/2013 8:28 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>>      In define printers for the Windows version of filePro 5.0.14 running on Windows 7 (no Unix involved), in Define Printers, is there any way to create a unique output file name based on %TIME% or some other Windows system variable?
>> 
>>                    ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐           5.0.14DN9
>>                    │ P R I N T E R   M A I N T E N A N C E                                   │
>>                    └───────────────────────────────────────┘
>>      --Name--  --Type--  --Destination File---            ------------Comment------------
>>    1 USB      ◄ DUMB         ◄ WIN:Dell968                               ◄ Laser Printer                  ◄
>>    2 prn       ◄ PAN1695    ◄ LPT1                                           ◄ Panasonic Printer              ◄
>> *  3 file_it ◄ NOCODES  ◄ print\PrintThis%time%> Send the output to a file      ◄
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mike Schwartz
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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