Local printing help please

Informix/Unix gurus, We have a canned financial package, written in informix, and we use the same technique as suggested by B. Wheeler below to acomplish local/lan printing. We have written a proc (included at end of note) which we use as a "print" command (I.E. print.local myfile ). This works fine outside of our application from the $ prompt, however; from within our application, the <CR> is being stripped from the list, which don't look so good when it prints :( . I think is has to do with the termcap we are using, because we were having screen re-mapping problems until we changed an auto-wrap boolean operator in the termcap. As near as I can tell, that was when this proc stopped working in our application. I will tell you up front that I am a unix/informix *newbie* (I was dragged kicking and screaming from the mainframe arena), and I am at a loss. I tried to get the proc to use it's own termcap, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. We are on a RISC6000, with Informix SE. TIA, Steve Updike ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 16:07:00 +0200 From: BILLY WHEELER <billy.wheeler@digitec.co.za> To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu Subject: Local printing from ACE on SCO UNIX -> 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. Right: if I understand you correctly, you have a printer attached to your terminal / PC being used as a terminal, and you want printed output to go to that device. In order to do this, you must let your reports go to the screen (no REPORT TO section) and in your FIRST PAGE HEADER you must print the control code that opens the printer port. This is typically something like "^[[5i" for ANSI or VT100. (ESCAPE, open square bracket, 5, i) At the end of you report you must send the characters "^[[4i". (ESCAPE, open square bracket, 4, i). ESCAPE is ASCII 27. This string will close the printer port. HTH, billy.wheeler@digitec.co.za ---Our print.local proc (some char may be lost when this is mailed because of the <ESC> sequences, but you get the general idea) :) ---> # # echo the local-printer START output sequence # echo -n "\\c" cat $1 # # echo a FORM FEED character # echo -n "\\f\\c" # # echo the local-printer STOP output sequence # echo -n "\\c"