Re: [U2] How do you verify windows printer is good before fatal error by PRINTing to a bogus printer.

Thanks Anthony.  Yeah, it you can find the code w/o too much trouble,  
I'd be interested.

BTW,  it's impressive how little printing this company actually does.  
Remember that promise of a paperless society?   Maybe we're getting 
there.   Good.  I hate printers.  Always have.

Chuck


On 1/29/2014 10:43 PM, Anthonys Lists wrote:
> On 28/01/2014 20:59, Charles Stevenson wrote:
>> Anthony pretty much nailed how we're doing it.
>>
>> But my original question is still unanswered.
>> I want to make sure it's a valid printer before I start printing to it.
>> I think I problably need to do something like
>>     EXECUTE "DOS /C [some-command] \\MY_PRINT_SERVER\PrinterName" 
>> CAPTURING DOSMSG
>>     IF DOSMSG = [something bad] THEN  . . .
>>
>> I was hoping someone in this august body had crossed that bridge before.
>>
> We never had that problem.
>
> I had a PRINTER subroutine or suchlike that accessed a printers file 
> with all the parameters. Any programatic (or user command line) 
> attempt to access a printer was via my stuff, that checked this file, 
> and set things up accordingly.
>
> So as far as eg accounts was concerned, they had the ACCOUNTS printer. 
> Whenever anything changed, I simply changed the ACCOUNTS entry in the 
> parameter file. Very useful, because on the odd occasion when a 
> printer went down I just made a temporary change to the file and 
> everything got diverted :-)
>
> If tyou're interested, let me know and I'll see if I can find the code 
> - I know I had it but it's a long time ago ...
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
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