jim-on-linux wrote: > Thanks, > The client is in a one printer office. If the > output file is opened with note and then sent to > the printer everything is fine but it defeats the > purpose of the utility. Also tried > lpt1 but > the same results.
This may not help, but it worked once for me although I don't remember the exact circumstances. If the printer is connected to the pc, give it a sharename, such as \\mypc\hpprinter. Then do a redirect of an lpt port to that sharename: net use LPT2: \\mypc\hpprinter. This indirect routing through the network driver back to the local hardware port seems silly, but it did fix a program that couldn't directly access the hardware. > > I'm trying to find out if this was some change in > xp from previous versions, or is there something > abnormal going on. I'm trying to avoid setting > up an xp machine for one client. > > > jim-on-linux > > > > > On Saturday 30 December 2006 03:05, Tim Roberts > wrote: > > jim-on-linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Did you run from a file or type in from > > > keyboard? > > > > > >When the client runs the utility program the > > >output file is built but nothing prints and no > > >messages appear. When I typed from keyboard on > > > an xp pro at c:\, I got the message. > > > > > >Is it possible that virus detector or some > > >self.defense software is interacting? > > > > It is quite possible that they simply do not > > have a printer hooked up to their computer's > > parallel port. If all of your printers are > > from network shares, then the special file > > "prn" will not go anywhere. > > > > Typing to "prn" is a dreadful way to do > > printing on Windows. -- > > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list