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| Some of my printed matter through reports launched by prg commands are got hold in the printer's buffer and are only released when quitting dbase.
Don t see why.
Any idea ?
Dom
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| Les Shewchuk 2006-11-29, 7:13 pm |
| Which version of dBase and what commands are you using.
If you are using the old printer commands.
Set Printer On
? "Some Stuff"
Set Printer Off
You have to "Close Printer" when your done to finish the job.
Les Shewchuk
"dlit" <dlitl@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> Some of my printed matter through reports launched by prg commands are got
> hold in the printer's buffer and are only released when quitting dbase.
> Don t see why.
> Any idea ?
> Dom
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| Ken Mayer [dBVIPS] 2006-11-29, 7:13 pm |
| dlit wrote:
> Some of my printed matter through reports launched by prg commands are got hold in the printer's buffer and are only released when quitting dbase.
> Don t see why.
> Any idea ?
In addition to Les' useful comments, as a way of explanation -- You're
now working with the Windows environment, and it does things differently
than DOS. You're going to have to adjust your way of thinking a bit.
The printer drivers, for example, eat control codes (ones used in DOS to
set text to bold, italic, etc.). They also have a "buffer". In order for
your report if you are using older ?/?? type syntax to go to the
printer and start printing once done, you will need, as Les points out,
to close the printer buffer.
Ken
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/Golden Stag Productions/
dBASE at goldenstag dot net
http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/dBASEBook.htm
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| bigMike 2006-11-29, 7:13 pm |
| And if none of those suggestions work, send a "CRLF" at the end of your
transmission. That used to work waaaaaaaaay back when.
bigMike
"dlit" <dlitl@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> Some of my printed matter through reports launched by prg commands are got
> hold in the printer's buffer and are only released when quitting dbase.
> Don t see why.
> Any idea ?
> Dom
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| Thanks for replies. My printing goes through modified prg using reports and close printer command.
This happens only some times. And in such cases, when going to the printers window and getting the status of the current printer, I see the series of pending documents cannot clear their stream out until getting out of dbase.
Dom
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| Ken Mayer [dBVIPS] 2006-11-30, 7:15 pm |
| dlit wrote:
> Thanks for replies. My printing goes through modified prg using reports and close printer command.
> This happens only some times. And in such cases, when going to the printers window and getting the status of the current printer, I see the series of pending documents cannot clear their stream out until getting out of dbase.
Try issuing:
close printer
And see if that helps.
Ken
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/(Opinions expressed are purely my own, not those of dataBased
Intelligence, Inc.)/
*Ken Mayer* [dBVIPS]
/Golden Stag Productions/
dBASE at goldenstag dot net
http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/dBASEBook.htm
http://www.goldenstag.net/GSP
http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase
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| Rick Gearardo 2006-11-30, 7:15 pm |
| Also try "eject"
Rick
"dlit" <dlitl@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> Thanks for replies. My printing goes through modified prg using reports
> and close printer command.
> This happens only some times. And in such cases, when going to the
> printers window and getting the status of the current printer, I see the
> series of pending documents cannot clear their stream out until getting
> out of dbase.
> Dom
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