Use Ed Rauh's Dirprtclass class librarry. It's excellent and I use it for direct printing.
>Hi friends
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>Till now I was printing codebar labels through Clipper with these simple instructions:
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>SET PRINTER TO (PORT)
>SET DEVI TO PRINT
>? NARCHI
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>"NARCHI" is a variable that contains a set of particulars commands which cause nice codebar labels are printed.
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> Now I want to do the same in VFP. Since I have no problems to print other documents on LPT1 I thought this would work
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>SET CONSOLE OFF
>SET PRINTER TO NAME (ETIQ_PIMP)
>SET PRINTER ON
>SET DEVICE TO PRINT
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>?? NARCHI
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>SET PRINTER OFF
>SET CONSOLE ON
>SET DEVICE TO SCREEN
>SET PRINTER TO
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>But printer prints literal commands
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>I create a file with the same commands I'm sending to print. If I try to print that file from DOS it prints correctly.
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>I know I could try to print that file using COPY FILE NARCHI TO LPT1.DOS and it will work but I must considere perhaps a non LPT printer could be used.
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>Any idea?
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>Thank you.
>
> Héctor