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Copying a text file to a printer
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From
27/09/2001 07:45:47
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
27/09/2001 07:35:26
Brian O'Donovan
Crescent Computers
Cork, Ireland
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00561339
Message ID:
00561343
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>Hi All
>
>I have developed a Touch screen POS system for a Hardware dealer. As I cannot
>choose the hardware myself, I have to live with the limitations of the PC and
>printer. I get a Spool32 error intermitantly . I got around this by copy to a
>text file and then doing a RUN copy command to print the receipt. However when I do this, I get the white command window up and the system does not return back to the calling form .
>
>Any ideas
>
>Thanks A lot
>
>Brian

Did you try outputting with "???"? This will send any string directly to the printer. My usual approach is to create a text file, and then sending with something like:
??? lcPrinterSetupCodes + lcEntireReportInMemoryVar
Hilmar.
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