Re: Local printing from ACE under SCO

Kate Juliff (kcj@netcom.com) wrote: : ZZ : Can anyone tell me how I can set up my local printer from ISQL. I do not : want to print to a system printer but can see how to do this. I am : currently printing ACE reports to a file for later printing direct from : SCO but this is not ideal. : Thanks, : Kate Kate, I think, we had the same problem, when we wanted to give our customers the opportunity to print from a printer local to the terminal they're working on. What we do is: - In the ACE-Report: OUTPUT TO PIPE "prpipe_XX" - In the (executable shell-file) "prpipe_XX": simply "eval DBPRINT_XX" - Start the application (which also includes an escape to isql) with a shell-script, that sets "DBPRINT_XX" to the desired value, depending on a configuration-file. This whole procedure allows us to access different printers for different purposes, local to specified terminals. Hope that helps, Hans - Stefan -- Hans - Stefan Madlung IVU GmbH, Bundesallee 88, D-12161 Berlin fon: +49 30 85906-345, fax: +49 30 85906-111, e-mail: ha@ivu-berlin.de