Hi Yuri,

Could not get the SET PRINTER TO command to work so decided to give the NET USE command instead (I decided to search some old threads here after I wrote you last and found some threads - should have done that first :-)

Anyhow, the NET USE commands did the trick. At first it did not work but traced that down to the printer driver not loading because there was not enough file handles available via the \WinNt\System32\Config.nt file. I increased this from the default of FILES=40 to FILES=80 and I finally got printouts to come out.

Thanks for the help!

Albert


>Sorry, I was wrong. Cannot give other recommendations, so I am not sure but this probably may help:
>
>1.
>From FPD help for set printer:
>*-----------
>Novell specific DOS printer setting:
>SET PRINTER TO
> [\\SPOOLER [\N]
> [\F = (expN2)] [\B = (banner)]
> [\C = (expN3)] [\P = (expN4)]]
> [\S = (server)] [\Q = (queue)]
>*--------------
>2.
>For Windows 2000 and NT to set printer you need to capture a printer port: try NET USE command from DOS, like [NET USE LPT1 \\ServerName\PrinterName]
>
>
>
>
>>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,
>>>>
>>>>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