>>Hi again
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>>I'm asking this for a colleague whose old FPD system is not working as should.
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>>There's a process that streams progress straight to the printer, by means of the ? and ?? commands. This is not working any more for the customer. The customer has a USB connected printer now, under XP. Now, as both these concepts were alien science fiction when the prog was written, I was wondering what can be done about it. The process can't be redone in VFP as it's part of a big, complex system in FPD.
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>>Only hint I have, in the code:
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>>sele 0
>>use daysread
>>set print on
>>set devi to print
>>set cons off
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>>then read and ? or ?? loop
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>>'ppreciate it
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>>Terry
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>How about streaming to a disk file (simple SET PRINTER TO command) and then use a new VFP app to read and print the disk file contents?

Hi Jos

So nothing can be done about it, and it is a problem of USB, XP vs FPD2.6?

Well I guess that thes/w could be changed to stream to a disk, but the user is a bus operator and the only foxpro they have is the subject fpd2.6 exe, and they're not very computer literate. Hence, any post processing is a no-no.

Besides, wasteful and antiquated though it seems (like an old ticker tape), this keeps track of an important process, in real-time (I'm not sure whether real-time strictly necessary) and the customer is a bit of a "job's worth" as far as I can gather.

Terry