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Set printer to LPT1 seem to not work in XP
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27/10/2006 08:41:25
 
 
To
26/10/2006 16:21:17
Eric Gauthier
Transcontinental Interweb (Montreal)
Boucherville, Quebec, Canada
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01164358
Message ID:
01164963
Views:
11
Can you post the printer make and model here? It's possible that someone online may be able to locate a driver for you. If one cannot be located, there may a compatible driver out there or at the very least the generic text driver. You really must install a windows printer driver and then use SET PRINTER TO NAME (lcprinter) and store the windows name of the printer to lcprinter beforehand.


>Thx for the reply,
>
>but, in fact, no printer is installed on the computer. Currently, we have 6 PCs with win 98 and a dot-matrix printer on each computer connected to LPT1. The printer is so old that we dont have no more the driver. (I know that seem ridiculous but I have to do with this. No one want to buy a new printer and we dont have contract assistance).
>
>The code work fine in foxpro 2.x with no installed computer that why we use LPT1 directly instead of the printer name.
>
>In 2 month we will upgrade to win Xp and PC's Vista capable. It's why we have to upgrade our code to visual foxpro 9 because nomore support Ms-dos right now.
>
>I dont it's a tricky problem and if you cant answer i'll understand.
>
>Thx a lot.
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