Re: [U2] How do you verify windows printer is good before fatal error by PRINTing to a bogus printer.
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On 28/01/14 20:31, Jeff Schasny wrote: > I've been using Universe since it was in beta and I had no idea you > could use a URI in SETPTR. > > Its a good day, I've learned something new. Thanks! Just watch out. In today's modern world of GDI printers, sending a raw text dump from UV is often not a good idea. In the old days of dot-matrix, or even PCL that just expected a text stream, it worked fine. It's nowhere near that simple any more :-( Cheers, Wol > > Wols Lists wrote: >> So if I am working on \\ASHDOWN (the name of my computer) I can use >> SETPTR to point at \\TIGGER\HP - a printer logically connected to a >> different computer that I've never told UV anything about. >> >> Setptr is quite happy to be given a windows remote computer reference >> and it works fine. That was how all our printers worked - they usually >> had network cards in them, so when a new printer turned up, I would >> assign it a name in DNS, and for anybody who was supposed to use it I >> would just edit their login script to add eg >> >> SETPTR ...,AT \\ACCOUNTS-HP\RAW >> >> And it just worked. No UV printer setting up whatsoever. Okay, my setup >> was a little bit cleverer than that, but everything, and I mean >> EVERYTHING, was done in my programs. Nothing at the UV level whatsoever. >> >> Cheers, >> Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users