question about printing

[Walter Vaughan]

Butch Ammon wrote:

> The thing my Admin dept wants to do is simply have me write a simple "export" 
> process to an ASCII file from filePro, then FTP it to Windows and have the PC 
> and BarTender software generate the labels that way.  It would be much quicker 
> to easier to manage, than trying to create Datamax PCL codes and force 
> filePro/SCO Unix to print to a serial printer/Datamax label printer.  Right?
> 
> Thanks for all the replies and help me regain my sanity! :)

Well it sounds like the "Admin" department wants filePro gone. It'll take an 
hour or two at worst to write a report to build a lable "exactly" like they 
want, and print directly from filePro into the windows computer that has the 
printer attached.

If this Admin department is your supervisor, do what they want (it'll probably 
take a few hours and fail repeatedly since it will require human intervention), 
in the mean time do it the right way in your spare moments. I dunno, you can 
tell them you can fix it once and it will work for just about forever without 
people screwing it up, or this is just a disaster waiting to happen. Of course 
you know that filePro will be blamed, and so you gotta get that evil unix crap 
out of there. Micro$oft $erver$ Uber Alles!

EOR

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Walter