Hi Yuri,

Even when running under FPD2.6? I thought "NAME" was only a keyword under Windows FP?

Albert

>Should be:
>SET PRINTER TO NAME \\ServerName\PrinterName
>
>>Hi Y'all,
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>>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.
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>>RUN /100 Capture Q=Brokerage /NB /NFF
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>>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.
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>>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)
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>>SET PRINTER TO \\NovellServer1\Brokerage = LPT1
>>SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER\NB\Q=Brokerage
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>>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).
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>>Am I using the above commands correctly? Should I be able to send output to a Novell queue from a W2K server (workstation)?
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Albert