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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have very limited experience with Windows
networks, have worked with filePro mostly in the Unix environment.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am trying to cause output from an output format
to always go to a particular printer. I decided to use the dreport -p flag
to do this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Filepro and fp are on a PC called "server"
which is shared by multiple PC's in the office. The default printer is an
HP laser locally attached to "server" and all reports go there by default (no -p
flag). This works ok.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A dot matrix printer is attached to "FREDS_PC"
(network name) and shared over the network as "OKiML320". This printer is
visible from "server" and I can print to it from "server" using wordpad (tested
with a small TXT file). I defined this printer to filepro (on "server") in
the printer table as : </FONT></DIV>
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matrix:PAN1092:WIN:\\FREDS_PC\OKiML320</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(There is no printer table for the oki 320, but I
was told that they have always used PAN1092 and it works.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used the share name for the printer in the
filepro printer table (OKiML320). I put "-p matrix" in my dreport command
line to try to force the output for all users to go to the okidata. The
result was, no error message, but nothing printed (I was logged in to "server"
remotely using remote desktop). I am not sure I put the right name in the
printer table. When I command windows to display printers on "server", the
oki is listed as:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Auto Oki ML 320 Elite
(Microline) on FREDS_PC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That is the full printer name as defined to Win XP
on "server". Is this the name I need to put into the filepro printer
table? And is "matrix" the name I would use in the dreport command line,
or in processing if I were to use a "printer" command?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Del Neroni</FONT> </DIV>
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