'Print' to screen in Windows environment

[Robert T. Repko]

Thanks to all that replied.  Evidently I wasn't as clear in my description of what I was trying to do as I should have been.  I'm not trying to do this from within processing.  I need to do it from a menu selection, I thought that was obvious from my statement that I have -pq in the menu, but I was wrong.

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Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: 'Print' to screen in Windows environment

I have a printer which sends to c:\hardcopy.txt so it's always on the local machine. 
The script from the menu runs the report than launches notepad c:\hardcopy.txt

Rick Mitchell



On Nov 11, 2015, at 7:25 PM, Robert T. Repko via Filepro-list wrote:

> I have a client running version 5.0.05DN9 on a Windows based PC.  I want to 'print' reports to the screen.  I've done it for years on Unix but never had to do it in Windows.  I have the Unix commands cat & less installed on the PC.  I tried the same commands I used in Unix:
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> |cat > c:\temp\view$$ & less c:\temp\view$$, but that failed.  
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> Since I'm not sure of the Windows equivalent of view$$ I tried:
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> |cat > c:\temp\view.txt & less c:\temp\view.txt, but that also failed.  I received the following error:
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> Cannot Open Print Command
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> |cat > c:\temp\view.txt & less c:\temp\view.txt: No such file or 
> |directory
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> C:\temp\view.txt does exist.  If I manually populate view.txt I can cat view.txt and less view.txt without errors so I know those commands are working.
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> In the menu I have -pq to allow selecting screen as a 'print' option.  I don't want to select display, it doesn't display on the screen as nicely as less.
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> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
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