Almost forgot this is plain text data. >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/ >Use redmon to set up a re-direct port. Redirect to a perl program that >opens a file for append and appends >the print data to it. If you're opening the data in MS Word (I can't tell from your description if you >are) you can use OLE to automate printing in Word from Perl.
Wow this is exactly what I needed. I am having some trouble setting it up. I am redirecting it to perl script... #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open (OUT,">>out.txt"); while (<>){ print OUT $_; } And here is the log file RedMon - Redirection Port Monitor Copyright (C) 1997-2001, Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 2001-10-28 Version 1.7 Environment: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files COMPUTERNAME=PKRAUS ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1 OS=Windows_NT Path=C:\program files\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;c:\Program Files\Perl\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C :\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;c:\Program Files\Perl\perl2exe PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15 PROCESSOR_REVISION=0207 ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files SystemDrive=C: SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService windir=C:\WINDOWS REDMON_PORT=RPT1: REDMON_JOB=33 REDMON_PRINTER=Generic / Text Only REDMON_MACHINE=\\PKRAUS REDMON_USER=pdk REDMON_DOCNAME=Test Page REDMON_FILENAME= REDMON_SESSIONID=0 StartDocPort: failed to start process Port = RPT1: Command = "C:\Documents and Settings\pdk\My Documents\perl code\redirect\redirect.pl" Error = 193 REDMON StartDocPort: returning 0 "C:\Documents and Settings\pdk\My Documents\perl code\redirect\redirect.pl" Printer=Generic / Text Only JobId=33 Level=1 DocumentName="Test Page" OutputFile="" Datatype="(null)" output=0 show=0 delay=300 runuser=0 Any thoughts??? Paul Kraus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]