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How to print the file ?
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30/11/2000 23:24:53
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00445540
Message ID:
00447858
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15
>>>>>Anyone know how to print the file (not doc file) programmatically or
>>>>>call API ? I try to use ShellExecute "print" before, but the file must be
>>>>>document file.The file i want to print is .log file.
>>>>>Can i call windows print manager ? or call notepad to print ?
>>>>
>>>>Easiest is to just call NotePad with the /PRINT command line parameter.
I would have thought
SET CONSOLE OFF
>>>LIST FILES LIKE c:\temp\*.log TO PRINTER   && or PROMPT
>>>SET CONSOLE ON
was easier. Just my opinion.
>>
>>LIST FILES only gives the directory; it doesn't print the files.
Found it:
TYPE FileName1
>  [AUTO]
>  [WRAP]
>  [TO PRINTER [PROMPT] | TO FILE FileName2]
>  [NUMBER]
...but then also look at the help for Set Heading, because this way of printing would also be affected by some formatting performed by Fox (note the Wrap clause - it's just a way to override the default formatting). You may find this useful for unformatted text files, but if any formatting is included (like, having form feeds, page numbers etc just like in character-mode-only days), you run a 99% chance that this internal formatting will collide with Fox's formatting, and... well, just walk to the printer and see what you got.

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