Programming with dBASE - Visualdb 5.7

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Visualdb 5.7 - Printer problem??

Tony Martin

2005-10-17, 1:26 pm

Hi,

I have a customer machine which runs a compiled 5.7 program and produces the
error when the program is initiated:

"Invalid driver name or insufficient resources: winspool"

The program then terminates.

I vaguely recall having a problem with this years ago and seem to remember
that dbases checks for a default printer at start-up and if the printer name
is longer than 31 characters it stalls.

Can anyone refresh my memory of how to get around this problem?

TIA, Tony Martin

Marilyn Price

2005-10-20, 8:26 pm

In article <p0QdHbt0FHA.1044@news-server>, ajm@pnc.com.au says...
> Hi,
>
> I have a customer machine which runs a compiled 5.7 program and produces the
> error when the program is initiated:
>
> "Invalid driver name or insufficient resources: winspool"
>
> The program then terminates.
>
> I vaguely recall having a problem with this years ago and seem to remember
> that dbases checks for a default printer at start-up and if the printer name
> is longer than 31 characters it stalls.
>
> Can anyone refresh my memory of how to get around this problem?
>

Actually, the default printer is probably the Windows fax driver. Just
change the default to a printer which prints on real paper and the dBase
will be happy.

--
Marilyn Price
M. P. Data

Tony Martin

2005-10-20, 8:26 pm

Thanks Marilyn. I'll give that a try.

Tony

"Marilyn Price" <mprice@tri_con.net> wrote in message
news:MPG. 1dbdbf4973db23c59896
da@news.dbase.com...
> In article <p0QdHbt0FHA.1044@news-server>, ajm@pnc.com.au says...
>
> Actually, the default printer is probably the Windows fax driver. Just
> change the default to a printer which prints on real paper and the dBase
> will be happy.
>
> --
> Marilyn Price
> M. P. Data

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