Windows 10 SCO Filepro issue

[Wayne Smith]

FP 5.8  (H)ardcopy works great in my Windows 10.

Smitty

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:43 PM Rod Caddy via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> As a reminder if I go to a windows 7 box it prints as expected.
>
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> On Oct 30, 2018, 8:18 PM, at 8:18 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >I don't think we disagree entirely.  That's essentially what I'm trying
> >to
> >get at:  What -is- the default printer, exactly?  It could be anything.
> >Could be a printer, could be a shared printer, could be a shell script
> >that
> >tucks the contents away in a deep, dark hole.  We don't know, so we
> >have to
> >ask.
> >
> >I will concede, after thinking about it a moment longer, that it
> >-shouldn't- be (easily) possible to make a pass-thru printer as a queue
> >device, largely because it should theoretically be divorced from the
> >tty at
> >the point of intake, and have no real way of knowing what tty to speak
> >to.
> >It would really depend on how determined you were, and the facilities
> >of
> >the print queue.  It does seem improbable, especially on SCO.  So that
> >suggested possibility is almost certainly ruled out.  Granted.
> >
> >Everyone has been correct in saying that the print spooler -should- be
> >the
> >first hop, though, all things being equal.
> >
> >The real question is, "What -exactly- is the default printer
> >definition?"
> >That, and was something else other than lp/lpr defined as the print
> >command
> >in filePro in a way that would affect Hardcopy?  (I'm not even sure
> >that's
> >possible for Hardcopy; like I said, it's been decades, and I was really
> >never a paper person anyway.  I used it like twice, probably.)
> >
> >m->
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:40:55AM +1100, Ken Cole thus spoke:
> >> Mark,
> >>
> >> I disagree.
> >>
> >> There should be no "transparent pass-thru device".
> >>
> >> The way H-Hardcopy works is entirely on the Unix/Linux server and it
> >> prints directly to the users default Unix printer or maybe the system
> >> default Unix printer.
> >>
> >> The only trickery that may be going on is that the printer is a SAMBA
> >> printer that is directing the print job back to a Windows printer or
> >> some sort of scripting to direct it back to a Windows printer and
> >> those capabilities may not be available or from a security
> >perspective
> >> allowed in Win 10.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 09:55, Fairlight via Filepro-list
> >> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen via
> >Filepro-list thus spoke:
> >> > > If you're trying to do H = Hardcopy, that should happen strictly
> >> > > from SCO to printer; what you use for terminal emulator should be
> >> > > irrelevant. Isn't that right?
> >> >
> >> > That's correct, although it would appear to a user to not be the
> >case if
> >> > the target printer were set up to be a transparent pass-thru
> >device.
> >> >
> >> > m->
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