Ok I am in a crunch situation. I have to gather a report from a credit card system. The system is archaic and runs on windows. On this software I have to go in for each day since January and print a report ( you can not do this as a batch :( grrrrr some programmer should be shot, twice). I want to print the data for each day to a file and append as I go. This is labor some using windows. Almost impossible.... I can cut copy into a new document but you can see how that could get annoying. I want it in a text file so I can then manipulate it with perl. <-- See on topic :)
Is there some way to setup a print to file printer in windows that will by default append and not ask for a file name? I know how to just set it up with out that criteria but that is of no help to me.
If windows can not do this can I setup up a similar print to file printer in Linux using cups. Share the printer using samba and then just have the winbox print to it? If so how. I know this is kind of off topic. But not sure where else to go. And after all it is for perl later.
Does this program output straight text or formatted output? If its formatted, I think you're just going to get a bunch of gobbeltygook in your file. Either way, Windows may send PS or PCL to the printer anyway.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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