Windows 10 SCO Filepro issue

[Brian White]

Apologies for this tangent from the OP's question.

Stock putty has passthrough print. You might be thinking of 2 things:

1 - Our (Aljex) version does add an option to the passthrough print, to
find the current default windows printer on the fly at print-time and use
that, instead of needing some printer to be manually configured and saved
statically.

2 - Both stock and our own putty has a problem with passthrough print that
makes it almost no good for "normal" use with filepro. Every single
printer-on/printer-off sequence becomes it's own complete print job,
complete with page eject. If you allow fp to print directly using
passthrough codes, then it prints one or two lines of form output and
ejects a page, prints another line or so, ejects a page... If you have fp
print to a temp file, and then cat that entire file inside of a single
printer on-off pair, that works. The fault is putty not fp. Putty needs a
print job countdown timer which I've never gotten around to doing, because
our application just happens to naturally never hit that problem, because
it does ALL it's printing to temp files and handing that temp file to a
special prc table to be printed or faxed or emailed or displayed in a
browser as a pdf etc... That prc table gets the entire finished print job
as a temp file only after fp is all done generating it, so when it does a
passthrough-print, it is sending the entire print job inside of a single
printer-on>data>printer-off sequence.


On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:15 AM Fairlight via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 02:02:55PM +0000, Walter Vaughan Jr via
> Filepro-list thus spoke:
> > Does it work when you use Putty as a telnet/ssh client?
>
> Stock PuTTY has no transparent print-thru.
>
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