>My old FoxPro application spools to a printfile and then allows the user to send this to a network printer using in effect:-
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>RUN /20 "COPY PRINT.PRN \\ABC03\REPORTS"
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>Using a NT v4 sp5 network. The source code is interpretive not compiled
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>Works beutifully in all flavours of operating system but Win2K. Where it gives a path not found. The command works in raw MSDOS. Any ideas?
COPY is an internal OS command; try changing to using XCOPY which is an actual executable program that can be found searching the DOS/Windows path, or prefix the command to explicitly start a new CLI (Command Line Interpreter, under DOS, a new instance of COMMAND.COM within the conventional memory space; under various Windows flavors, starting a new CLI may actually launch a new process, and under NT family OSes, by default will try to start an instance of CMD.EXE rather than COMMAND.COM, which behaves a bit differently than the DOS/Win9x COMMAND.COM):
RUN /20 "COMMAND /C COPY /B PRINT.PRN \\ABC03\REPORTS"
BTW, adding the /B tells the CLI to perform a binary copy - COPY will stop prematurely if certain non-ASCII characters are encountered in the print stream, and some non-printing ASCII characters are reinterpreted during a text-mode copy.
