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New Windows only printers wont handle DOS printout!
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14/01/1999 22:46:10
 
 
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14/01/1999 18:46:08
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00175969
Message ID:
00176323
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28
>>Some of us are still using good old FoxPro 2.x DOS.
>>The problem is that many printers are Windows only printers and simply discards any output from Dos. Is there any third party program out there that can convert Dos output to Windows output on the fly before the printout reaches the Windows print que?
>>
>>Any good ideas?
>
>!run notepad.exe myfile.txt /p
>
>The /p should maybe be /print, check the registry entries for .txt files.

You've got the parameter correct; I think it needs to precede the file name, IOW notepad.exe /p myfile.txt.
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