Use of variable or system maintained field in config file printer definition?

[Richard Kreiss]

Not sure if this will work on a *nix system.  For A Windows system I make sure that all of the local printers to use have the same name "System_printer".  As long as Windows sees this printer name,  Win:System_Printer will print to that printer.

Your other options If not following the previous mentioned suggestion would be to put the printer destination as a variable in the user profile or in the startup file for filePro. 

The last option would be to create a filePro user file based on the login name and get the printer information from there.  Use @once processing to set the printer.  

Richard Kreiss

Keep in mind that the next major release of filePro will allow for a lot more printers to be defined. I think the number will be 99 printers.  Your 5.7 version may reach its end of life support shortly.




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> Subject: Use of variable or system maintained field in config file printer
> definition?
> 
> Filepro 5.7.00.09D4
> FreeBSD 10.3
> 
> What I am trying to is something like the following so that printer’s output
> destination is controlled by the value of a variable.  Otherwise I would need to
> define a separate printer for each user, which is too unwieldily.  And yes, I
> realize, I could print to a single destination, such as /tmp and then use a system
> command to move the file with appropriate variable right afterwards (which is
> actually what I am doing now).  However, if possible, I would much prefer to be
> able to have the printer conditionally put the output directly where it is intended
> to go, all in a single step.
> 
> Is this possible in Filepro?  The 2 examples below do NOT work and the variables
> are treated as actual values, and not what the variable represents.
> 
> printer7=txt,nocodes,>/home/@id/report.txt
> 
> Or
> 
> printer7=txt,nocodes,>home/$LOGNAME/report.txt
> 
> Thank you very much, in advance.
> 
> 
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