<div dir="ltr">FP 5.8 (H)ardcopy works great in my Windows 10. <div><br></div><div>Smitty</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:43 PM Rod Caddy via Filepro-list <<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As a reminder if I go to a windows 7 box it prints as expected. <br>
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On Oct 30, 2018, 8:18 PM, at 8:18 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>I don't think we disagree entirely. That's essentially what I'm trying<br>
>to<br>
>get at: What -is- the default printer, exactly? It could be anything.<br>
>Could be a printer, could be a shared printer, could be a shell script<br>
>that<br>
>tucks the contents away in a deep, dark hole. We don't know, so we<br>
>have to<br>
>ask.<br>
><br>
>I will concede, after thinking about it a moment longer, that it<br>
>-shouldn't- be (easily) possible to make a pass-thru printer as a queue<br>
>device, largely because it should theoretically be divorced from the<br>
>tty at<br>
>the point of intake, and have no real way of knowing what tty to speak<br>
>to.<br>
>It would really depend on how determined you were, and the facilities<br>
>of<br>
>the print queue. It does seem improbable, especially on SCO. So that<br>
>suggested possibility is almost certainly ruled out. Granted.<br>
><br>
>Everyone has been correct in saying that the print spooler -should- be<br>
>the<br>
>first hop, though, all things being equal.<br>
><br>
>The real question is, "What -exactly- is the default printer<br>
>definition?"<br>
>That, and was something else other than lp/lpr defined as the print<br>
>command<br>
>in filePro in a way that would affect Hardcopy? (I'm not even sure<br>
>that's<br>
>possible for Hardcopy; like I said, it's been decades, and I was really<br>
>never a paper person anyway. I used it like twice, probably.)<br>
><br>
>m-><br>
><br>
><br>
>On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:40:55AM +1100, Ken Cole thus spoke:<br>
>> Mark,<br>
>> <br>
>> I disagree.<br>
>> <br>
>> There should be no "transparent pass-thru device".<br>
>> <br>
>> The way H-Hardcopy works is entirely on the Unix/Linux server and it<br>
>> prints directly to the users default Unix printer or maybe the system<br>
>> default Unix printer.<br>
>> <br>
>> The only trickery that may be going on is that the printer is a SAMBA<br>
>> printer that is directing the print job back to a Windows printer or<br>
>> some sort of scripting to direct it back to a Windows printer and<br>
>> those capabilities may not be available or from a security<br>
>perspective<br>
>> allowed in Win 10.<br>
>> <br>
>> Ken<br>
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 09:55, Fairlight via Filepro-list<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen via<br>
>Filepro-list thus spoke:<br>
>> > > If you're trying to do H = Hardcopy, that should happen strictly<br>
>> > > from SCO to printer; what you use for terminal emulator should be<br>
>> > > irrelevant. Isn't that right?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > That's correct, although it would appear to a user to not be the<br>
>case if<br>
>> > the target printer were set up to be a transparent pass-thru<br>
>device.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > m-><br>
>> > --<br>
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