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SET PRINTER TO problems
Hi Y'all,
I have a old DOS app that I have to keep running as an unattended app. It is now on a DOS box that connects to the network via Novell. To allow unattended switching between printers, my technique was to RUN the Novell capture program to switch capturing ie.
RUN /100 Capture Q=Brokerage /NB /NFF
To free up room in the server room, would like to move this program to a Win2k server having it run in a DOS window on the screen. When testing this, the above command is no longer able to execute with the error being "Program too big to fit in memory". I increased /100 to /400 but still no luck.
So I thought I would try another route as I remembered that SET PRINTER TO could point to a network queue. I tried the following commands (I tried them one at a time but nothing worked - they seem to need to work together - help files are too sketchy to know)
SET PRINTER TO \\NovellServer1\Brokerage = LPT1
SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER\NB\Q=Brokerage
No error seems to be generated but my output did not make it to the printer (I should add that if I did something simple like opening a table and issuing "List lastname to printer" that I got output to go - but a regular report (.frx) output did not make it there).
Am I using the above commands correctly? Should I be able to send output to a Novell queue from a W2K server (workstation)?
Thanks,
Albert
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