There is a Portuguese forum here, so there is no need to use computer translation. I was not able to understand the message...

>>Good Day!
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>>I use the command of the MSDOS "type" to redirect the exit of an archive for my printer.
>>I capture the door where the printer if finds and make the command one: "Run type arq1.txt > door". I have two questions to make.
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>>1) This command to the executed being shows the window Of and comes back toward the screen of mine aplicaçao. How to prevent that this window Of the ones at the moment of the execution of this command occurs?
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>>2) Utilizo this form of necessary impression therefore at the moment where it is being printed matter the report to vary some caracteristicas, something as we made old as for example: CHR(15) to condense + "ESC", etc... The dot-matrix printer interprets these characters as commands and not as data to be printed matter. It would have skill of I to make something similar to put using report?
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>>Debtor to all.
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>>Lázaro Santos .
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>You can send a text file directly to the printer with:
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>PrinterCodes = ... && codes for the printer, for instance,
>                   && chr(15) or chr(18)
>MyVar = FileToStr("FileOnDisk.txt")
>??? PrinterCodes + MyVar
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>See also my download #9991 (class for printing in text mode), and my article on importing and exporting text (http://www.levelextreme.com/Magazine/August2003/Page20.asp).
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>Finally, let me point out that in English, the act of creating a report is called "printing". "Impression" has a completely different meaning.