>Terry
>
>>>-VFP 9.0 SP1 ::)
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>>I thought Germans had no sense of humour.
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>What humor?

I said nothing about "humor" - I'm English! :-)
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>>>
>>>-Will a change to the printer setting during the run of your App be visiblre for the App?
>>>If yes you may query for the port, create a BAT file by string operations and run it from your app.
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>>Don't quite understand. Main thing is the user is not to be bothered with selecting ports, etc. Everything must be as transparent as possible.
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>>>
>>>-If not you may create the bat file at least. (install a bat as default way to start your exe. If the exe starts, check those bat file. If you find the redirections, fine, if not alter the bat file and rerun it.)
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>>There IS a .bat to staret the exe, as laid out below. I don't understand you sketch.
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>If you dont want the user to change the .bat, use your .exe to do the job (provide some interface and recreate the .bat)

Ah, I see now what you mean. Maybe a good idea. Trouble is, it still needs some knowledge by the user, in providing the network connexion and printer share name, eh?

Hmmm, I must smoke on this.
>
>AFK
>Agnes

AFK ????

Danke

Terry