Re: [U2] Tech Alert *TURN YOUR GADGETS OFF* before you get hacked
Allen, do you have any evidence that gadgets were the way you got infected? This article: http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/gadgets.aspx seems to suggest that with proper and up-to-date anti-malware software, gadgets are no more dangerous than other installable programs. On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Allen Elwood RR wrote: Tech Alert *TURN YOUR GADGETS OFF* before you get hacked http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn261332 :shock: hacker's found a way to get inside your gadgets and take control of your computer this explains how i got hacked last month - my computer was acting odd and really slow - the hard drive was thrashing like crazy and i knew something wasn't right so i walked to the wireless router and pulled the power cord. did a full disk virus scan and had a couple of really nasty trojans and 250+ spyware apps all active at the same time. wonder WHY it was so slow! :lol: they also got my password to my roadrunner email and started blasting spam, i started getting mail delivery failures, put 2+2=5 together and changed my password. after that i immediately got a spam - kinda like a nanner nanner we got you thing. gadgets off now. i miss them already. the clock gadget disappeared and i started looking around to see what was up and found this alert by Microsoft you know, you'd a thunk maybe they'd let us know??? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] FYI off topic
Were these capacitors visibly bulging on top? The story goes that a few years ago, a cap provider in China got their mix wrong for the dielectric, and tens of thousands (maybe more) of these caps got put in all kinds of devices. They didn't fail immediately, but a well after the warranty had run out. On Tue, 7 May 2013, Robert Frailey wrote: Dont throw away those flat screens when they die. I fixed one today, 30 minutes and 5 capacitors on the output power supply. They seem to be made with under rated caps. So far since last year i've fixed 9 flat screen monitors, all capacitors in the output power supply. I've change the caps but up'd the rated voltage on each so if it 470uf 10v, i put in a 470uf at 25v. Easier than fixing tube monitors, takes about 30 minutes. Nice side job in the future, everyone will have a couple. Robert ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] FYI off topic
I know some people who fix a stiff drink after work. That relaxes them as well (or better). On Tue, 7 May 2013, Robert Frailey wrote: If everyone learned how to fix something, and did it a couple days every week. Maybe we wouldn't throw so much away. Fixing things is how I relax, I hate computers after work. I won't throw something away if it still has value and I can fix it. Rob - Original Message - From: George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [U2] FYI off topic Better be careful, the division of stopping people from fixing things will be after you! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Frailey Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 5:34 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] FYI off topic sounds about right, most caps the cover was shrinking due to overheating, the one today was a 1000uf ar 10 volts, the top wrap was sightly pulling away. The screen had not totally failed but had a 60hrz ripple running to to bottom. most of the caps looked good but I changed all the output, isolated side to be safe. Screen looks great now Robert - Original Message - From: Bob Rasmussen r...@anzio.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [U2] FYI off topic Were these capacitors visibly bulging on top? The story goes that a few years ago, a cap provider in China got their mix wrong for the dielectric, and tens of thousands (maybe more) of these caps got put in all kinds of devices. They didn't fail immediately, but a well after the warranty had run out. On Tue, 7 May 2013, Robert Frailey wrote: Dont throw away those flat screens when they die. I fixed one today, 30 minutes and 5 capacitors on the output power supply. They seem to be made with under rated caps. So far since last year i've fixed 9 flat screen monitors, all capacitors in the output power supply. I've change the caps but up'd the rated voltage on each so if it 470uf 10v, i put in a 470uf at 25v. Easier than fixing tube monitors, takes about 30 minutes. Nice side job in the future, everyone will have a couple. Robert ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
I'll cast another vote for UTF-8. This mechanism for storing and transmitting Unicode data is elegantly designed, and it should be usable in almost any legacy system that allows 8-bit data. Take a look at its byte value allocations: * Hex-00 through hex-1F are standard control characters, like ASCII. * Hex-20 through hex-7F exactly match ASCII. * Hex-80 through hex-9F are not used, because they might conflict with high (C1) control codes. * Hex-A0 through hex-FF are used in various combinations to represent international characters; EXCEPT * The codes for multi-value mark, etc., are not used. * It's a stateless system; that is, it doesn't phase shift from one scheme to another. Unicode data stored this way can include English, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Braille, Byzantine musical symbols, and on and on. The precautions you must take, off the top of my head, are: * You can't assume that one byte of storage represents one character or one screen cell. * You must be careful not to break a character in half (or thirds, etc.) * You must be careful with anything that inputs or outputs data, to make sure it works in UTF-8. By the way, our terminal emulation (Anzio) and printing programs (Print Wizard) handle UTF-8 very well. On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Symeon Breen wrote: We process and store most of our info in utf-8 - this includes multiple European languages, not currently Chinese tho but that should not be an issue if it is encoded in utf-8. We also use uniobjects.net with this data no problem. Well I say no problem - you do have to make sure your lang settings are correct, and that you know in your code if you are dealing with utf-8 encoded data or not - otherwise you can get tied up. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of doug chanco Sent: 05 April 2013 03:49 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters hi all, anyone care to share any suggestions on the best way to create pick records that include chinese/spanish characters via c# and uniobjects or just c# and writing to a unix file? I have some ideas I am mulling around in my head but I thought I'd tap into the vast knowledge base available on here. I am basically looking at creating a pick record (or a unix one) that is a mixture of html and text (in english/chinese and spanish). any thoughts/suggestions are extremely welcomed thanks dougc ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
It's a critical point, and worth verifying. If someone will verify what UV NLS does, that'd be great. In the Unicode manual, it states that in UTF-8, no byte can have a value higher than hex-F4. On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Anthonys Lists wrote: On 05/04/2013 23:37, Bob Rasmussen wrote: * The codes for multi-value mark, etc., are not used. iirc, if you use UV NLS (and presumably UD too) the mark characters have UTF-8 values assigned. Don't have a clue what they are, though. Cheers, Wol ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] How do you print a .pdf from inside a Unix Box
Sometimes the hardest information to find is that what you want to do isn't possible. So let me tell you what is and what isn't possible, in printing PDFs in Windows. 1) You can OPEN a PDF based on its file extension. From the command line, you can simply type type pathname of the PDF. From Windows Explorer, you can double-click. These use a system in Windows called file associations. Specifically here, you're using the OPEN verb. In the Windows registry there is a command associated with .PDF and open; typically it runs Adobe Reader. Once open, it is up to the user to print the file. 2) You can also execute the command string yourself, if you know what EXE to use. That is what you cited in a later email. 3) In Windows Explorer, you can also right-click on a PDF and select Print, to cause Windows to print the file on the default printer. This is using the print verb in the file association. Behind the scenes, this will run a command, typically running Adobe Reader with a /p parameter (for print). 4) There is NOT an equivalent way to do this from the command line. 5) You can create a shortcut to a specific printer on your desktop. Then you can drag a PDF to this shortcut, and it MAY print on this (non-default) printer. This uses the less-documented printto verb in the system of file associations. Support in Reader for printing in this way has varied by version. 6) There is NOT an equivalent way to do this from the command line. 7) You MIGHT be able to invoke Reader with some command line parameters to cause it to print on a specific printer. Results may vary by version. 8) NONE of these will let you control various output options in Reader, such as whether the report should be shrunk to fit the printable page. 9) All of these assume that the PDF file to be printed exists on the Windows PC, or is accessible to it, such as via Samba. None will pull the file from an HTTP or FTP server. Bottom line is that there is not a good and convenient way to do this using Windows commands. However, we offer a solution, in the form of our Print Wizard product. Consider the following command: printwiz.exe http://somehost.com/somefile.pdf /pMy laserjet printer This will bring up printwiz.exe, which will fetch the PDF from the http server into memory (never being stored on the local disk), and print it to the specified printer. Printwiz is doing the PDF interpretation itself, it is not using any Adobe or other products. There are a huge number of other options, such as shrink-to-fit, page range, multiple copies, password entry, preview, watermarking, form overlaying, and more. See www.anzio.com for more details and a free demo. On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Bruce Conway - Bamac LTD wrote: I may have missed this discussion but if someone can help me that would be great. We have been executing a SB command to windows to open Adobe and print the PDF document. We would like to either not have to open Adobe and print the document or print the document from within our Unix box. We have a hp7640 11iv3 running on an Itanium processor. Here is the Unidata information: Module Name Version Licensed UniData RDBMS 7.2 Yes Connection Pooling... 7.2 No Device License... 7.2 No NFA.. 7.2 No RFS.. 7.2 No EDA.. 7.2 No 721 Oh, love this list, I have been using Pick since 1985 and still going strong. Bruce ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] How do you print a .pdf from inside a Unix Box
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Dave Davis wrote: Interesting. How long did it take to write a compliant reader? It took YEARS. And I don't claim to be finished. We handle the problem in #8 with a Catalog entry in the PDF file. I assume you're referring to the fit-to-page setting. But my understanding is that you can set the printing preferences to a) edge-to-edge, or b) default, which means to behave according to the reader's default setting. There is NOT a way to set it to always shrink to fit. If I'm wrong, please provide specifics. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:32 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] How do you print a .pdf from inside a Unix Box Sometimes the hardest information to find is that what you want to do isn't possible. So let me tell you what is and what isn't possible, in printing PDFs in Windows. 1) You can OPEN a PDF based on its file extension. From the command line, you can simply type type pathname of the PDF. From Windows Explorer, you can double-click. These use a system in Windows called file associations. Specifically here, you're using the OPEN verb. In the Windows registry there is a command associated with .PDF and open; typically it runs Adobe Reader. Once open, it is up to the user to print the file. 2) You can also execute the command string yourself, if you know what EXE to use. That is what you cited in a later email. 3) In Windows Explorer, you can also right-click on a PDF and select Print, to cause Windows to print the file on the default printer. This is using the print verb in the file association. Behind the scenes, this will run a command, typically running Adobe Reader with a /p parameter (for print). 4) There is NOT an equivalent way to do this from the command line. 5) You can create a shortcut to a specific printer on your desktop. Then you can drag a PDF to this shortcut, and it MAY print on this (non-default) printer. This uses the less-documented printto verb in the system of file associations. Support in Reader for printing in this way has varied by version. 6) There is NOT an equivalent way to do this from the command line. 7) You MIGHT be able to invoke Reader with some command line parameters to cause it to print on a specific printer. Results may vary by version. 8) NONE of these will let you control various output options in Reader, such as whether the report should be shrunk to fit the printable page. 9) All of these assume that the PDF file to be printed exists on the Windows PC, or is accessible to it, such as via Samba. None will pull the file from an HTTP or FTP server. Bottom line is that there is not a good and convenient way to do this using Windows commands. However, we offer a solution, in the form of our Print Wizard product. Consider the following command: printwiz.exe http://somehost.com/somefile.pdf /pMy laserjet printer This will bring up printwiz.exe, which will fetch the PDF from the http server into memory (never being stored on the local disk), and print it to the specified printer. Printwiz is doing the PDF interpretation itself, it is not using any Adobe or other products. There are a huge number of other options, such as shrink-to-fit, page range, multiple copies, password entry, preview, watermarking, form overlaying, and more. See www.anzio.com for more details and a free demo. On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Bruce Conway - Bamac LTD wrote: I may have missed this discussion but if someone can help me that would be great. We have been executing a SB command to windows to open Adobe and print the PDF document. We would like to either not have to open Adobe and print the document or print the document from within our Unix box. We have a hp7640 11iv3 running on an Itanium processor. Here is the Unidata information: Module Name Version Licensed UniData RDBMS 7.2 Yes Connection Pooling... 7.2 No Device License... 7.2 No NFA.. 7.2 No RFS.. 7.2 No EDA.. 7.2 No 721 Oh, love this list, I have been using Pick since 1985 and still going strong. Bruce ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo
Re: [U2] SENDING BARCODE COMMANDS TO OKI PRINTER
As I look at the book, your codes are exactly right. Perhaps the char(10) is getting post-translated from linefeed to return-linefeed. I suggest you try a 9-digit code for comparison. On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Nancy Fisher wrote: I'm having some problems getting the internal barcode to print on an okidata 320 turbo: Sending to an aux printer: PRINT CHAR(18): PRINTTEST PRINT PRINT CHAR(27):CHAR(16):CHAR(65):CHAR(8):CHAR(2):CHAR(0):CHAR(1):CHAR(1):CHAR(2):C HAR(2):CHAR(3):CHAR(1): PRINT CHAR(27):CHAR(16):CHAR(66):CHAR(10):1234567890 PRINT PRINT PRINT CHAR(20) I get the TEST and sometimes I get '67890'. I could certainly have the Aux codes messed up, or just about anything as this is my first attempt at sending codes to an OKIDATA. It says it's the IBM PPR emulation Mode, and has the internal barcode (using code 39). Nancy Fisher Peninsula Truck Lines, Inc Federal Way, Washington 253/929-2040 Visit our Website http://www.peninsulatruck.com www.peninsulatruck.com mailto:nan...@peninsulatruck.com nan...@peninsulatruck.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] UNIVERSE/SB+ AND BLUE TOOTH
I can't directly help you, but I might be able to redirect your search in the proper direction, based on my experience with similar devices. Most likely, the fact that it communicates via BlueTooth is irrelevant. The device probably has a driver that makes it emulate a serial device. That is the case with many USB-connected devices such as scales, POS displays, etc. Hope that helps. On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Nancy Fisher wrote: Has anyone done an integration using data from a blue tooth device? We currently have a wireless application on a handheld device (ttwin) we'd like to use to receive input from wireless scales via blue tooth. Thanks! Nancy Fisher Peninsula Truck Lines, Inc Federal Way, Washington 253/929-2040 Visit our Website http://www.peninsulatruck.com www.peninsulatruck.com mailto:nan...@peninsulatruck.com nan...@peninsulatruck.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [Windows]
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Re: [U2] [Windows]
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Re: [U2] Printing OCR-A on HP printers in UV
Indeed Print Wizard can handle this task. It allows you to print with ANY Windows-installed font, on any Windows-supported printer. You can call for the font using our markup language, PWML, or you can use PCL -- Print Wizard recognizes those escape codes, including the ones in the barcode/OCR simm card. On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Robert Porter wrote: I bet Print Wizard from Rasmussen could do this... Then you're talking about 1 server side piece of software and at most 1 soft-font purchase if needed. Plus you'd gain: email, pdf, forms, etc... Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. Mark Waldron mwald...@salemva.gov 8/27/2012 8:51 AM Is there a way to print OCR-A fonts on HP printers without purchasing a $250.00 DIMM card that inserts into every printer. It's not an built in font on my printers. This would be within a Universe basic program. Running UV 10.2.3 on a virtual Windows 2003 Server. Thanks in advance. Mark Waldron City of Salem, Va This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] PI/UV: Decompiler *** mispelling correction *** in the previous email
And oops, mispelling should be misspelling :-) On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Robert wrote: OOPS: IBM's compiler should read IBM's decompiler. Robert Norman ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] OT: A little life humor
Amusing! Trivia question: what did the original handwriting on the wall say? No googling! On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, George Gallen wrote: Over the weekend, my son told us not buy any more cards or gifts for his girlfriend, because they have broken up. (not the humorous part). When we told him we were not surprised because we could see the writing on the wall, he seemed stunned And wanted to know whose wall we saw it on! (facebook reference). He still seem puzzled when we explained That it was just a figure of speech, and couldn't understand why we were laughing when we realized he Thought we saw it on facebook. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Printing to a windows printer from a linux server on Universe
HOW are you trying to print from Linux to Windows? Also, what kind of printer? On Thu, 10 May 2012, T Stokes wrote: We are having issue in printing to a windows printer from a Linux server. When we try to print to a Windows 7 machine we are getting errors on the windows seven machine. Has anyone has this same problem. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Printing-to-a-windows-printer-from-a-linux-server-on-Universe-tp33763682p33763682.html Sent from the U2 - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] EMF/WMF Form underlay with Print Wizard
Thanks for the plug, Robert. To expand on the multiple possibilities for overlays (which are technically underlays): 1) Print Wizard's default placement of any overlay is edge to edge. Thus if you scan a letter-size form at the full 8.5 by 11, it should reproduce exactly. 2) EMFs and (the older) EMFs are kind of poorly defined when it comes to page boundaries. We use Microsoft Publisher's export-to-EMF capability as a standard. 3) Scanned forms look ... scanned. We offer a service (at $100 per page) of running it through a form recognition program and manually cleaning it up. Output is then excellent. 4) Sometimes when converting to laser printing, you need to shrink the form to fit within the printable boundaries of the particular laser printer. You may need to adjust overlay placement for other reasons. Then you may need to adjust the placement of the text over the overlay. PW has a way to do this graphically, on-screen, in the Print Preview window. It's really slick and effective, but we haven't done a good job of documenting it yet. However, we can walk you through it via a Webex (remote desktop) session. 5) Switching from printer output to PDF output maintains the placement, exactly. Note that if somebody prints from the PDF, they need to disable scaling in order to maintain exact placement. We're always eager to help. ... Bob On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Robert Porter wrote: Yes, replying to myself... (I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell No Cracks from you, Bessel!) I figured it out and thought y'all might want to know how. First I tried converting text to curves as saving the WMF (doesn't appear to be an option for EMF). That made the file larger (13K to 50K) but still tiny compared to the TIF file. That got it much closer than it was... But the form ran from edge to edge regardless of the fact that I had margins around it. I solved that by placing a 1x1 pixel dot at opposite corners. I did top right and lower left. That lined everything back up like expected. Love Print Wizard... in the past doing changes like this would take me days if not a week or more of hand tweaking PCL. Plus being able to send the same thing to PDF and not having to get up to go to the printer to see if it worked is so much nicer not to mention more productive. Great product, if you haven't tried it, you should! Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Ed Clark wrote: If the universe server is on windows XP (or windows 2000/nt or I think windows server 2003) you can use services.msc to allow the universe telnet server service access to the desktop (there's a checkbox in the log in tab). Of course that's only useful if you're a desktop user on the server (remote desktop counts as well). But beginning with windows vista, services are no longer allowed interaction with the user desktop at all ... In Windows 7, in the Services applet, if you select a service, right-click select Properties, and go to the Logon tab, there is a checkbox for Allow service to interact with desktop. I am curious whether checking this makes any difference in the issues being described here. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command
An educated guess would be that the DOS command invokes the command processor (command.com in long-ago Windows, cmd.exe now) and passes the \c (or is it /c?) to it. If in Windows you open a CMD prompt, and type cmd /? you can see what options it accepts. My output includes: /C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates Further down the help display, it gives more information. On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Wjhonson wrote: The DOS command in Universe takes a /c argument and then you can specify a bat file like DOS \c test.bat What does \c mean? Are there other arguments like \z or \x that it can take? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command
Note that in Unix/Linux, the options available may depend on what shell you're running (sh, bash, etc.). On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, George Gallen wrote: OK, so it looks like it's just pushing to unix what is on the command line, and So the -c is an option to the sh command. I'll have to look into this now as well As to whether any of the options are of any use, other than -c George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Houben Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:18 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command The /k option is used to run a command (like a batch file) and keep the command shell around for more commands. The only difference to the /c option is that it does not immediately close after running your command. *nix doesn't have a /k option (but might have a different one). I suspect Universe doesn't document it because what that CMD prompt can do is dependent on the version of DOS/Windows you are running. They pass off to the O/S cmd.exe executable and it's up to that to determine what it does. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: February-15-12 1:14 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command I Tried doing the same with UV/Unix (except with the SH command). Sh -c 'ls' gives me directory Sh -k 'ls' gives a strange error: /bin/ls: /bin/ls: cannot execute binary file I don't have a DOS box to test DOS on, so what happened when you did DOS /K...? George ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
On 2/7/2012 6:50 AM, Charlie Noah wrote: Hi Bob, I don't suppose CrowFlite can be obtained these days, can it? It looks like Phil has retired. If it were available, would it work with the newer versions of Excel? What about Open Office? CrowFlite is long out of date, both in support of Excel versions and support of Pick versions (which was always a hassle). But the biggest difficulty was that it used the serial terminal interface to extract data from Pick. This went on through a usually hidden instance of Anzio Lite (on the Windows platform), which is where I was involved. It would be conceivable, though not necessarily profitable, to have an Excel add-in that would pull data out of Pick via a network-based object call. I don't know whether ODBC or SQL or something like that is available, in various implementations - that would be the first question. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
Sorry, Tony, I should have been aware of your offerings. Maybe you need to charge A LOT for your product, and then people would be interested :-) On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Tony Gravagno wrote: From: Bob Rasmussen It would be conceivable, though not necessarily profitable, to have an Excel add-in that would pull data out of Pick via a network-based object call. Conceivable? How about Done. Phil Gerber has referred people to NebulaXChange as the replacement for CrowFlite. http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/2009/03/xchange-intro1.html (Not bothering with nospam anymore...) If nothing else, just look at the screenshots. That blog links back to another 2007 blog which has code showing how to connect from Excel to any MV platform via a web service. The takeaway here is that anyone here can have a solution for Excel-to-U2 today, for free. (NebulaXChange for U2 can connect with UO.NET, mv.NET, telnet, or SSH.) Not necessarily profitable? Righteo! Not in this market. Once again, people will go for years longing for something that already exists, the underlying theme being it must be free. The mentality of free (not related to open source) or at least the insistence that for some reason Pick tools need to be cheap, has seriously done a lot to kill innovation. It has destroyed the motivation for developers like me to create solutions which address common needs. NebulaXChange never went production because of kickback on a couple hundred dollar price tag. I might rethink that. It might seem weird to say this, but XChange is software that just deserves to be used. Frustration with this market obvious? :) T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
Makes one long for CrowFlite, doesn't it? For those that don't remember, CrowFlite was an add-in to Excel that allowed it, at a per-cell level, to reach back into a Pick database and grab individual pieces of data. In other words, it was a pull solution as well as a push. I'm cc'ing its creator, Phil Gerber, so he can reminisce about the past while reveling in the sights among the mountains of Oregon :-) On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Tony Gravagno wrote: Not responding to any particular quote here, just the CSV topic in general. Respected colleagues, CSV is not Excel. If you have an end-user that asks for Excel and you give them a CSV you're just perpetuating the myth that Pick is a dinosaur. They will gladly spend tens of thousands of dollars to replace your application with something that creates real Excel (and PDF) despite the fact that such things can be attained at low cost or no cost right now. Trust me, I've seen it happen. This dove-tails with the reasons why people get 20 people to support Oracle when they can have 3 working on Pick. The reason is that the Oracle people say yes, and give them pretty reports, when their Pick guys say no, and give them plain text in columns and rows and call it Excel. Please don't let that happen to you. Be sure you are properly responding to end-user requests. Just ask them what they do with the documents after you generate them. If they really just want raw data, OK. But if they go on to tell you how many days it takes to reformat the data, assemble the multiple CSVs into a single workbook, etc, then you have found a great deal of room for improvement. Yeah, I've been there too. Off the soapbox, thanks. T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Proposed MVDBMS forum to replace CDP
Take out the nospam.please On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Kate Stanton wrote: Oops! Google Chrome could not find nospam.pleasenebula-rnd.com On 29 December 2011 09:33, Tony Gravagno 3xk547...@sneakemail.com wrote: For anyone familiar with comp.databases.pick, a migration initiative is under way to a new community owned and moderated forum. You are welcome to get information and links from my blog, to provide your own feedback, and to join the new group for vendor-independent, cross-platform discussions. CDP occasionally gets U2-specific questions and it would be nice to bring back U2 representation to that audience. nospam.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/12/cdp1.html This U2 forum has a long history as a successfully moderated e-mail group. The only two concerns from the CDP so far are 1) people don't want to let go of Usenet, and 2) they're concerned about moderation turning into censorship. Your responses to those concerns are most appreciated. I welcome U2 forum moderators and other community leaders to lend their name and assistance to help ensure the credibility of the new forum. As PickWiki is a platform-independent resource, of value to everyone in this industry, I hope that we can re-invigorate the new MVDBMS Google Group to be a similar asset for everyone. Happy and Safe New Year to all! Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno NEW! http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms/about ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Kate Stanton Walstan Systems Ltd 4 Kelmarna Ave, Herne Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand Phone: + 64 9 360 5310 Mobile: + 64 21 400 486 Email: k...@walstan.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Green Screen - Wide Screen
This seemed like an interesting challenge for late in the day :-) I took an unreleased future version of AnzioWin (our terminal emulator), stretched the window across two 23 monitors, and set the character width to 600. Sure enough, things blew up. But not that badly! I found and fixed 4 or 5 things that were still limited to 255, and now have it running. Text is narrow but tolerable, currently 6 pixels wide. I'm working in that mode, typing email into Pine. It looks doable. Another alternative would be a 600-wide buffer that was scrollable at the Windows side. I think I have that capability tucked away somewhere here. Contact me if interested. On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Bill Brutzman wrote: We have a large application that runs in Dynamic Connect... and needs more in the way of columns. DC is limited to approx. 132 characters. I believe that wIntegrate (when in text mode) is the same. We need maybe five times that. While I have almost concluded that this app needs to be re-written in GUI... before punting... are there any other angles worth consider... such as AccuTerm or some other text-based terminal emulator. Is there a way to do this in DC or wIntegrate? --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Signature capture solution
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Bobby Worley wrote: We are running Universe on AIX, with Accuterm emulation on Win XP/7 clients. We are looking for a way to capture digital signatures at our sales counters, and store the signature image with the associated invoices and print them on the invoice form. We are in the middle of developing this feature as part of Print Wizard, both within AnzioWin (our terminal emulation client) and the freestanding Print Wizard product. Right now we are focusing on the Topaz 1x5 pad. I would encourage anyone interested in this area to contact me off-list. Some specific points about the direction our efforts are going: 1) All our software runs on the Windows platform. Integration with the server will vary depending on which if our products is used. 2) We intend to display an entire page, such as a contract, an invoice, or an acknowledgement of receipt, and have the customer (or whoever is signing) be able to see what they're signing. I think of this as a sign here approach. 3) The document to be displayed can be plain text, PCL, PDF, or Print Wizard Markup Language, with or without a form overlay applied. This can be a multi-page document. 4) A template, in the form of a PWML overlay, will specify where to sign. This can be multiple pages, and can specify multiple places to initial or sign. 5) We will immediately merge the signature with the input document (and overlay) and output to PDF, using only our own software. Alternatively, we could print or fax the output. 6) We intend to provide support specifically for the family of Topaz hardware. 7) We also intend to support the ink capability of the TabletPC platform, to allow signing directly ON THE SCREEN. 8) The TabletPC support will be portable to Windows-based tablets, including those running the recently announced Windows 8. 9) We already have support for digitally certifying an output PDF. We will explore connecting these features. Again, if you are interested, please contact me. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Document Management
Doug, If your solution is 100% web-based, are you doing scanning on the web client? If so, how do you accomplish that? On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Doug Averch wrote: [ad] We wrote a document management system about 5 years ago. We sell it with our CRM system as a way to store documents, images, contracts and emails. The document management system, however, can be sold stand alone as well. It is 100% Web based and can run on Universe or Unidata. One of our clients stored over 50 million documents using our software. All documents are not stored in U2 database but rather on the native Apache Tomcat web server. We use U2 database for the meta data and indexing. We found this method a lot less work than encoding and decoding for U2. See http://www.u2logic.com/applications.html for more information. [/ad] Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com Application software that is 100% Web based ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Document Management
U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Printing to Remote Warehouse
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Bryan Evans wrote: I apologize upfront if this is more related to Unix rather than UniVerse. We have a remote warehouse that connects to us via telent on a dumb terminal. They have a line printer hooked up to the dumb terminal. When we print packing lists, we open up the aux port and send the print job to the printer. We are looking to eliminate the dumb terminal, but we are stuck on how to send a print job to a local printer hooked to a PC. Has anyone done this before? Is it possible? The remote warehouse is not on our network - the only way they can connect is via telent. We are running UniVerse 10.2 on HP-UX and use AccuTerm as our emulation software. First, if it's a dumb terminal they're probably not doing a telnet connection. (If there's something spelled telent out there, I don't know about it.) A dumb terminal communicates via serial. You MIGHT have a serial-to-telnet adapter of some kind, and it would be important to know that. If you connect your AccuTerm in a similar manner, and use the correct control codes to turn on and off the printer port, then AccuTerm *is* able to do passthrough print. Note, though, that these codes vary by terminal type, and you said you turned on the AUX port instead of the printer port, so you might have the wrong codes. Bottom line: it should be possible to do what you're doing with AccuTerm. If the data needs to be manipulated to work on the (new) printer, such as if you're transitioning to a laser printer or even a Windows-only (i.e., brain-dead) printer, you could bring our Print Wizard software in to play, by doing passthrough print through AccuTerm, then feeding it to Print Wizard, and out to the printer. Print Wizard could also apply a form image, allowing you to print on plain paper instead of preprinted stock, for instance. It is also an option to run a freestanding version of Print Wizard, which would mimic a JetDirect device. There are lots of options. Call me if you'd like to discuss them. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] PDF Files directly from UniData or UniVerse
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Doug Farmer wrote: Here is a question for this group. Has anyone been able to generate PDF files directly from UniData and/or UniVerse without having a manual step involved? In other words, just running a program using the standard PRINTER ON and PRINTER OFF commands, and having the output be a PDF file? [AD] As has been pointed out (thanks, guys), our Print Wizard can address this issue, and many more. Some specific points: * If your U2 runs on Unix, Linux, AIX, etc., you can route print jobs to Print Wizard Service Edition (running on a Windows box) as though it were a remote printer. * If your U2 runs on Windows, you can do the same approach, to the same or a different Windows box. Other methods are possible also. * If your program puts out plain text code (no escape sequences), PW will auto-fit it to the page. * If your program puts out PCL-5 data, PW can understand and translate that. * Output can be to PDF, to fax (client or server), or to ANY Windows printer, with great device independence. * PDF output can be emailed, either automatically, semi-automatically, or manually, using Outlook, SMTP, or some others. * Output can be combined with form images (in several formats, with multiple pages in various sequences). * Command and control can be interactive or programmatic. More Pick-specific details are at http://www.anzio.com/resources/print-wizard-and-multivalue-pick-faq Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Extreme slow down on Universe periodically
This supports my contention that Windows' telnet client is not robust enough for use in a production environment. [Ad] Anzio, in this situation, will properly close down the host connection before quitting. In addition, it can be configured so that it is not possible (short of Task Manager or reboot) to quit from the client side. This then coerces the user into exiting from the menu system on the server, clear out to where the telnetd or sshd closes the connection. Then the client side (Anzio) reacts to this and quits. It avoids a lot of problems. On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Curt Stewart wrote: Thanks to all that have replied. We're still busy researching and testing but we did catch a break yesterday and it appears that the problem could be the same that Wol mentioned. We have had reports of CPU spikes in the past, but these were only reported in off hours and usually the following day or later. Yesterday however, they noticed a process that was Spiking using 100% CPU. We were able to track it to the user and find out exactly what they were doing. The user confirmed that they would just exit from the telnet session window (Windows Telnet) and not log off properly. When I tested this, the Process immediately began spiking. We're thinking and hoping that the slow downs that we have experienced are the cumulative affects of multiple bad disconnects and CPU spikes. I have contacted Rocket to see if/when this issue has been resolved and we will keep monitoring the server. Again thanks for the help and input. We're still going through several of the suggestions to see what impact they may have. Curt Stewart -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:54 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Extreme slow down on Universe periodically On 08/04/11 14:04, Curt Stewart wrote: Has anyone in the group experienced this issue and found a resolution? Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Environment Universe 10.2.10 Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine (sorry don't know any details on this component) 34 user license, only about 15 active This is an old problem, that might well be resolved on 10.2, but do you have any rogue uvtelnets? We used to get that - they'd get disconnected somehow from their user, and then grab 100% cpu. Kill them, and things went back to normal (we had to crash them, they wouldn't kill, by attaching the debugger or something). Charles mentioned the network. Are your network buffers too large? I'm beginning to pick up from my reading on a hardware/software mismatch at the TCP level, and network slowdown (and catastrophic failure) are the result. Cheers, Wol ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] GreenBar End-Of-Job Eject
[Ad] If you send your greenbar reports through Print Wizard, it will do that task automatically. It will also make sure your text fits on the page, by analyzing and auto-sizing it. And it will work on every printer out there. On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Bill Brutzman wrote: We recently did a fresh install of UV 10.3.6. With the former version 10.1, when GreenBar print jobs ran, it would automatically eject a page at the end of the report when the job finished. With UV 10.3.6, it no longer auto-ejects. I want it to do the auto-eject so that I do not have to tweak two dozen programs. It is a Printronix printer with an HP JetDirect print server. Suggestions would be appreciated. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] [Ad] Print Wizard 4 Released!
Print Wizard 4 Released October 20, 2010 Rasmussen Software announces the release and immediate availability of version 4 of the Print Wizard suite of products. Print Wizard is Windows-based software designed to assist in printing a variety of document types, with a special focus on legacy environments running on Windows, Linux, or Unix. Print Wizard also allows alterations to the print job, ranging from adding a form image to printing barcodes to data rearrangement. Output can go to any Windows-printer, to PDF, to fax, to TIF, etc. Among the many new features and general improvements in version 4, there is a special emphasis on form printing. Print Wizard can apply a form background to existing print jobs. Form images can come from a scanner, capturing an existing paper form, or can be created from almost any Windows file or program. New in version 4, the form's placement on the page can be adjusted easily on the screen, and the print file's placement can be adjusted to make it line up, using a unique new thumbtack mode. There is support for printing multiple impressions of each page, with varying form images and/or varying paper sources, in order to emulate printing on multi-part carbonless forms. Output can be burst, collated, or eved stapled in sets on a printer with a stapler. Print Wizard 4 is downloadable from http://www.anzio.com/pub/printwiz40/pw40setup.exe It will install as a 60-day demo, with all features enabled. It will work cleanly in parallel with earlier versions on the same machine. Pricing, licensing, support policies, etc., are currently being updated on the website (http://www.anzio.com). Temporarily, additional information is available in a Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/print-wizard-4 For any questions please email r...@anzio.com Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Licensing
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com wrote: I think there is some of that, but for the most part they are real. Some folks like to keep 4 or 5 sessions open at a time instead of moving around between screens. Note that (unless something changed recently) your licensing actually is based on number of users, not sessions. If you have a terminal emulator that can handle this, properly configured, one user on one machine with 5 open sessions will consume only one license. Our Anzio emulators can do this. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs
Is this with a standalone hardware printer server, or a PC acting as a printer server? If the latter, with what software on the PC? Our Print Wizard software for Windows can act as a printer server. We have *some* capabilities for job sequencing, and we could explore more options with you if this is critical. On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, George Gallen wrote: the debug info shows they were sent to the printer in the numerical unix job# order. I disabled the printer, sent the jobs again, and the unix job# order was the same as the order sent, I renabled the printer and when the jobs printed they were in random order, according to the cups log, they were sent in the correct order. So it looks like it's the receiving print server that is sending them in random order to the printer, of course the admin for that server swears it does FIFO... Thanks for the debug tip... -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 12:51 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs Maybe turn the logging up a notch and verify the order they are being submitted? It might not be considered submitted until it finishes spooling, where a large job can be surpassed by smaller jobs. We would not really want it to block on large print jobs. Take for instance you start spooling an invoice run that may take 5-6 minutes to spool, you do you not want to process any other jobs while this thing is transferring to the queue? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs
First, one clarification: IPP is not port 9100. Port 9100 is variously described as JetDirect or raw TCP. As for the port getting disabled: Are you saying this happens only with the RPM software, not when going directly to the device? This would sound like a weakness in the RPM software. On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, George Gallen wrote: it's a Canon Imagerunner copier/printer with it's own pc acting as a server. I'm not really sure what OS it's running, I don't think it's windows. I'm submitting lpd protocol to it, directly to it's IP I switched our side so that cups sends to a Windows PC running RPM lpd server, and RPM then sends the raw data to a windows network printer (same copier/server) except it's getting it's jobs through the networks windows printer server, and the jobs print as expected. So, it's definitely in the Canons PC's lpd server specifically. This all sounds great..and solved, EXCEPT, we have found another little issue with cups, it seems when the lpd server is busy, cups triggers the printer queue to disable (ErrorPolicy stop-printer), which is extremely annoying to have to keep reenabling the queue when you send a flurry of jobs. So we changed it so the ErrorPolicy retry-job instead, now it doesn't take the queue offline, instead now it just doesn't send a job to the server, but still deletes it from it's queue. SoUntil I can get this lost job issue solved, looks like I have choices: 1. Look into changing from lpd protocol (port 515) to Ipp protocol (port 9100) (next attempt) 2. See if the server's admin can set something so the lpd server does FIFO 3. have fun sorting printed jobs back into their correct order! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 1:50 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs Is this with a standalone hardware printer server, or a PC acting as a printer server? If the latter, with what software on the PC? Our Print Wizard software for Windows can act as a printer server. We have *some* capabilities for job sequencing, and we could explore more options with you if this is critical. On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, George Gallen wrote: the debug info shows they were sent to the printer in the numerical unix job# order. I disabled the printer, sent the jobs again, and the unix job# order was the same as the order sent, I renabled the printer and when the jobs printed they were in random order, according to the cups log, they were sent in the correct order. So it looks like it's the receiving print server that is sending them in random order to the printer, of course the admin for that server swears it does FIFO... Thanks for the debug tip... -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 12:51 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs Maybe turn the logging up a notch and verify the order they are being submitted? It might not be considered submitted until it finishes spooling, where a large job can be surpassed by smaller jobs. We would not really want it to block on large print jobs. Take for instance you start spooling an invoice run that may take 5-6 minutes to spool, you do you not want to process any other jobs while this thing is transferring to the queue? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624
Re: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses
[Ad] For a terminal emulator that can handle UTF-8 data, try Anzio. On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Symeon Breen wrote: We use utf-8 encoding of Unicode - this is good as it is compact as it only uses 1 2 3 or 4 bytes depending on the character value in the unicode set. Also 1-127 is the same as regular ascii. - For us it is only ever single or double bytes, it just stores it in the field, so for instance the character Ż is stored as c5 bb. I don't think Selects and lists etc would work on such data unless you have nls configured, but we don't do many selects in our systems and certainly not on any fields that would have utf-8 in them. For viewing - so long as your emulator is set up for utf-8 it will view the data correctly, if you switch your emulator to an extended acii type character encoding it will give you control characters. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Neil Richards Sent: 14 September 2010 17:51 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses Symeon, How are you storing unicode in your regular files? I thought to go multibyte you need to turn on NLS? From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen [syme...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 8:50 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses We do store multi byte stuff, the biggest issues we have are not in the storing but in its identification so that you can then transport and display it correctly, we often get the data in xml files so we need to know that the file has the correct character set definition, similarly the data is displayed in a browser via html so again we need to know that the correct character set is used, and certainly not mix character sets on one output, ascii/utf8 combination is fine, but you can get in knots if you start to combine iso8859-1 with utf8 as the characters 127-255 are single byte in iso8859-1 but double byte in utf8. In some ways utf8 is better than is08859-1 as you don't get the u umlout issue as character 253. You can of course mix character sets in your data, so long as you know what is what. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.orgmailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug .org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: 13 September 2010 16:38 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses Hey, Just wondering how others have approached this - storing multi-byte names and addresses for non-English languages. I don't think we're approaching the demarcation line where an NLS implementation would be warranted, with the Administrative overhead that incurs. We are doing a lot more other language business though since we are opening more and more off-shore call centers, and have deployed multiple non English language websites. Our immediate need just relates to Name, and ship to / bill to addresses, such words as Mosiężno-Żelaznych. Thanks in advance for the always enlightening insights. -Baker This communication, its contents and any file attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential proprietary information. Access by any other party without the express written permission of the sender is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this communication in error you may not copy, distribute or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Please destroy it and contact the sender. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.orgmailto:U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.orgmailto:U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA___ U2
Re: [U2] Test ... please ignore
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Larry Hiscock wrote: Test, please ignore I'm trying... I'm trying... Oh, I just can't! ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] Print Wizard 4 beta testers wanted (fwd)
Hello! Because many of you are active users, or at least testers, of Print Wizard, I'd like to invite you to participate in the beta testing process for version 4. We have set up a Google group as the primary means of communication for this. If you respond to me personally, I will add you to the group. At that point you can learn more about what's new and improved, and how the beta process works. There's no commitment, you can withdraw at any time. Note: this does *not* involve the Print Wizard feature set of AnzioWin, our terminal emulator. Watch for an announcement later. PW4 adds some significant new building blocks to Print Wizard. For instance, we have a *reader* for PDF files, where previously we could only create them. This makes it easier to use a PDF as an overlay, for instance. We have also greatly enhanced many of the building blocks. For instance, the Print Preview window can now view multiple pages, and it lets you adjust the placement of an overlay as well as the text on that overlay. Components can be combined in new ways. For instance, you can preview a job on its way to PDF output, and even sign a purchase order on the last page. Finally, we have focused many improvements on the need to eliminate multi-part, pre-printed forms. We have placement adjustment, multiple copies (collated or not), and bin sequencing. By participating in the beta process, you get the chance to try these new features early, and contribute suggestions to the final form and function. So come on board! Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Very much OT - AUTO: Haydon Bishop is out of the office (again)
This is beginning to have shades of Waiting for Godot (or perhaps Waiting for Gufman). On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Dave Laansma wrote: Where's Haden? along the Waldo theme. Sincerely, David Laansma IT Manager Hubbard Supply Co. Direct: 810-342-7143 Office: 810-234-8681 Fax: 810-234-6142 www.hubbardsupply.com Delivering Products, Services and Innovative Solutions -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John J. Wahl Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:10 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Very much OT - AUTO: Haydon Bishop is out of the office (again) Now this T-Shirt of Awesomeness, does it have the The Man the Myth the Legend on the front or back and the opposite side says perhaps I've seen Away People... (Like Haydon Bishop)? I'm game how much? :P - John J. Wahl Employee Owner Programmer / Analyst Tel: (888) 465-6737 Ext. 120 Fax: (330) 342-3896 Email: jw...@joseph.com Web: http://www.Joseph.com/ -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:02 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AUTO: Haydon Bishop is out ofthe office.(returning 26/06/2010) inquieti wrote: I've ordered I've seen Haydon Bishop t-shirts. Are you going to offer them for sale? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] UV Windows SSH without telnet service
The most recent issue of Spectrum magazine detailed a process which I will summarize here: 1. Use PuTTY to establish an SSH session from Windows client to Windows server. 2. In Putty, open a local port forward, so that a particular socket on the client is forwarded to the server. 3. Run your favorite telnet client, in telnet mode, to connect to localhost and the socket (port) referenced in item 2 above. The telnet client connects to the local port, which forwards it (within the secure SSH connection) to the server. The SSH daemon on the server forwards the connection to the telnet port (usually 23) on the server, wher UV receives it. As far as UV is concerned, it is running telnet. However, all external traffic is authenticated and encrypted. On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Steve McConnell wrote: We have a user running on a Windows UniVerse server who has a security requirement which forbids running any telnet services. They want to use ssh to connect and have installed bitvise winsshd. It allows us to kick of a uvsh.exe upon authentication. We are able to login to our software or the uv account fine. But, once we are in, we are having serious terminal emulation problems. I haven't found a term type which will work. vt100, console, ansi, etc all display incorrectly (CRLF looks like LF). Commands such as PTERM CRMODE do not work, etc. Has anyone out there connected to a UniVerse windows server without the telnet service via ssh? Steve McConnell Columbia Ultimate ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Brutzman, Bill wrote: I mostly agree with Jeff's philosophy but... What alternative does Jeff's recommend as the fix? I understand it as well. However, the dearth of device-independent printer support in Linux/Unix environments limits the options. Let me sugget some modifications to your philosophy. 1) You have already removed some tasks from your server, most likely, into freestanding appliances, such as routers, firewalls, and possibly network storage devices. In fact, one could argue that this creates a MORE robust approach, because changes to your AIX system, for instance, are less likely to inadverantly affect their operation. We are considering making more changes to Print Wizard in order to make it more able to function as a printing appliance, sitting between the server and the printer. For totally non-interactive tasks, this could be an option. 2) If you are running Windows PCs as clients, using either terminal emulation or a GUI front end, then consider the possibility of a print job as a client task. Maybe not for printing thousands of invoices, but for more personalized jobs. For example, some of our users will generate a purchase order on the server, feed it to the client, through Print Wizard, to generate a PDF of the PO. Print Wizard creates an email message with the PO as an attachment, and might also attach other files and documents to the email. Then it opens the email (in Outlook or in our own window) and allows the user to customize and personalize the email. They can enter recipient information, subject, body text, additional recipients, etc., and also attach other files. A similar process can be used for faxing. I figured out years ago that there are MANY ways, combinations, and permuations people want to do print-related tasks, and we continue to expand the number of them that Print Wizard can address. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font)
First, you mention table support. Print Wizard does currently have some HTML table support, with control over borders, margins, widths, etc. We haven't written it up yet. And there are some things lacking. What you have described is focused on markup-to-PCL or markup-to-PS, plus command and control of existing Linux utilities. This would greatly reduce the the complexity of the project. However, I still don't see the business case for doing this development. On Thu, 20 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: I'll embed comments since it'll be easier to direct my responses. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:10 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font) On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen B wrote: Bob, Let me also extend an offer to help with general development off- hours, if you're willing to work with GPL libs for open development. ... Thanks for the offer. But you haven't said what Print Wizard features you want, exactly. I need a markup-based PS/PDF generating solution that accepts embedded PS/EPS as well as JPEG/GIF images. Barcode markup will be a nice addition, but not required since I can generate PS and PCL content myself. Let me give you the scope of things. I just did a full build of printwiz.exe; that is, just the main program that does all the dirty work. It's 550,432 lines of code! It has a PCL reader, a PDF writer, a PDF reader (coming soon), graphics file input routines (some purchased), an interface to Windows faxing, Windows sockets, and Windows scanning, SSL, CDO, MAPI, SMTP, the Windows spooler, FTP, HTTP, and Windows printer drivers (yes, we do use those for most printing output). It has some user interface, notably the print previewer, but not a lot. It can read files in formats PCL-5, PCL-6 (some), JPG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, EMF, SPL, TXT, PWML, HTML, PDF, Unicode, and more. It deals with input and output of TrueType fonts and does fine-grained manipulation on them. It prints in most world languages. Let's break a few things down and compare: PCL input and output is covered under Ghostscript, though some complex PCL6 stuff may be buggy. Find a bug and report it at this point. It will get fixed. Generic PCL3/4 stuff should be solid at this point, but I would verify with the devs. The XPS/GPDL code has been out for a while now. PDF/PS/EPS input and output are covered under Ghostscript. ImageMagick can handle image generation, manipulation, and conversion to a ton of formats. Ghostscript can output a variety of raster and vector image formats, but the input formats are limited since the application is vector based. I've not found a situation where I couldn't convert between multiple standard formats with ImageMagick and Ghostscript at my grasp. Faxing is a no-brainer with Hylafax or Hylafax++ using TIF or PS files. Most faxing applications will accept either format so Hylafax was just an example of a typical app that is installed. Most *nix servers that communicate with the world, or the employees in the office, run a local MTA so an embedded SMTP client will not be needed. Send it with the mail or sendmail command so that the admin has more control over how the mail is processed. FTP? If you absolutely have to, but most *nix admins I know of mock the user when that acronym is suggested. SCP is far superior in a ton of ways including speed and security. HTTP? Erm, how exactly are you suggesting that? You serve stuff through IIS? If so, lighttpd or Apache can be there depending on requirements. If you've embedded an HTTP server, don't bother on *nix. There are plenty of http servers you can hook directly or indirectly into. Windows printing drivers? While some obscure printers are problematic in CUPS configuration, I've never had an issue making programmatic paper/drawer/slot/etc selections when a PPD was available and installed properly. I'm willing to bet the *nix admin(s) running the equipment selected printers better suited to CUPS than Windows, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. The other formats you mention like WMF and SPL are pretty pointless here. Text is a given, along with TIFF, JPEG, and BMP. HTML and PWML are where your expertise and experience with rendering content from mark-up could really help make a great Linux product. Not having table support, though, is a huge missing feature. If I misread the tech guide, please correct me. Having CSS control in HTML would be just
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Do you have a server version for Linux yet? You refer to our Print Wizard product. No, we don't have a Linux version. Printer drivers on Linux are far less powerful than those on Windows. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
On Wed, 19 May 2010, charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com wrote: You refer to our Print Wizard product. No, we don't have a Linux version. Any plans to develop a Unix version? All of our servers run on Unix. Some of our workstations too. The same issue exists on Unix, so no. It is quite easy to set up one or more Windows machines as print servers, running Print Wizard, and feed them from Unix or Linux. This is what we recommend, and we have many customers doing this. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Just about everything gets converted to PostScript by CUPS and filters, so I don't follow you. My understanding is that CUPS deals with things at a job level, but not at a graphical element level. So for instance, if I have a TIF file I can feed it to CUPS as such, and the filters in CUPS can convert it to PostScript, if that's what's needed. But suppose I want to draw a red line from point A to point B on a page. Then I want to print in Arial 23 point bold, rotated 15 degrees. A Windows printer driver lets me do that, and have it come out correctly on thousands of kinds of printers. I don't believe CUPS gives me that fine level of control. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message pine.lnx.4.64ras.1005190850490.5...@nimbus.anzio.com, Bob Rasmussen r...@anzio.com writes On Wed, 19 May 2010, charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com wrote: ... It is quite easy to set up one or more Windows machines as print servers, running Print Wizard, and feed them from Unix or Linux. This is what we recommend, and we have many customers doing this. The only problem with *that* - is that your $100 solution has just become a $1000 solution. Find a machine, find somewhere to put it, pay for Windows (and you probably need the expensive pro version), and then pay all the running costs (electricity, air-con, etc etc aren't cheap). A lot harder to justify for occasional use. Don't forget - nix houses aren't used to the one server per service concept - they've probably got one old box running twenty, thirty occasionally used services - $100 to add another service on it is a very different proposition to finding a complete new machine just to run one thing. Print Wizard will run quite nicely on a $300 netbook. Velcro it to the wall. :-) Or set up a virtual Windows machine on your Linux machine. Seriously, though, I believe you're overestimating the costs while being largely unaware of the benefits. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font)
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen B wrote: Bob, Let me also extend an offer to help with general development off-hours, if you're willing to work with GPL libs for open development. ... Thanks for the offer. But you haven't said what Print Wizard features you want, exactly. Let me give you the scope of things. I just did a full build of printwiz.exe; that is, just the main program that does all the dirty work. It's 550,432 lines of code! It has a PCL reader, a PDF writer, a PDF reader (coming soon), graphics file input routines (some purchased), an interface to Windows faxing, Windows sockets, and Windows scanning, SSL, CDO, MAPI, SMTP, the Windows spooler, FTP, HTTP, and Windows printer drivers (yes, we do use those for most printing output). It has some user interface, notably the print previewer, but not a lot. It can read files in formats PCL-5, PCL-6 (some), JPG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, EMF, SPL, TXT, PWML, HTML, PDF, Unicode, and more. It deals with input and output of TrueType fonts and does fine-grained manipulation on them. It prints in most world languages. And it's not in C, it's in Delphi. Now if you're interested in a very small subset of its capabilities, there might be hope. Several years ago I ported it to Kylix, which is the Linux equivalent of Delphi. I restricted it WAY down to just outputting PDF files. It was moderately painful. More to the point, it was dependent on Kylix and several libraries it used, which I think even today would be less stable and future-proof than Windows. I don't know if Kylix is currently supported. Then there's the question of the business case. It would have to generate some serious revenue. I won't go into numbers at this point, but I have a long to-do list. So what do you need, and what's it worth to you? Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] Print Wizard teaser
Hi all, With all the conversation on printing and related topics, let me mention what's in the pipeline. Some of this was described and demonstrated at the recent Spectrum conference, but most of you weren't there. So... We will soon be going to beta with Print Wizard 4.0. This major release has many new building blocks, and many more ways to connect those blocks together. Let me mention one main focus area: eliminating the need for multi-part preprinted forms. We've had some of this, but more is coming. Imagine the classic case: you're currently printing invoices on 4-part carbonless preprinted forms on a dot matrix printer. Once printed, maybe you burst (decollate) them, maybe not. With Print Wizard 4, you will be able to: 1) Feed in text (the main, variable data) in plain text, PCL-5, HTML, or PWML (Print Wizard Markup Language). 2) Use as an overlay a 4-page PCL file, 4-page TIF file, 4-page PDF, or a list of files, to serve as the form backgrounds. 3) Tell Print Wizard to use paper from 4 different input bins, each containing a different color paper. 4) Create the output either collated or burst. 5) Preview the print job on the screen. 6) Shrink and place the form image to fit within the printable boundaries of the printer being used, graphically. 7) Shrink and place the text on the form image, graphically. 8) Save the configuration into a job-specific profile file, for reuse later. 9) Output to any Windows-supported printer. 10) Print in Chinese. 11) Set this all up easily. As I said, that's just one of the focus areas, but it's a biggie. If interested in assisting with the beta process, please email me off-list. Stay tuned... Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Charlie Noah wrote: ... Sorry, Tony, I have the greatest respect you you, but printing barcode is just too easy to pay a lot for it. Who said anything about paying a lot? You can get started in Print Wizard for $99 or $300, depending on configuration. How much is your time worth? (And not all printers have barcode capabilities built in.) (And thanks again, Tony.) Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Printing images
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Don Robinson wrote: Harold, If you or someone else can pay for it, Print Wizard will do the job plus a lot more. Given the amount of time someone might need to take to build one PCL file, Print Wizard will almost certainly save money. Entry price is $99 for Personal Edition, $300 for Server Edition. See web site for details. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] Complex printing (was Re: AccuTerm File Transfer)
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Kevin King wrote: I understand the beauty of being able to push reports out a slave printer, but what do you do when the goal is printing labels with specific large proportionally spaced fonts and center or right justification of the text? What you need is a way to describe complex printing that is precise yet device independent. We happen to have such a thing. [Ad] Imagine describing your desired printout in HTML. But HTML won't let you be precise enough to get the text exactly right on the labels, it won't print barcodes, and it won't render consistently on different browsers and different printers. PWML addresses all that. Print Wizard Markup Language is our means of doing just what you describe. Rendering PWML is just part of what Print Wizard does. If you're using AccuTerm, you can passthroguh-print the PWML print job, then have AccuTerm fire off Print Wizard to render it on a specified printer. Peter already includes the scripts to do that. All you need is Print Wizard Personal Edition, which is $99. (You can even preview the labels, and tell it to start printing at a certain label, to avoid wasting a partial sheet.) Or, you can use AnzioWin, our terminal emulator, which has the Print Wizard engine built in. Passthrough print jobs will go straight to the printer (with optional preview). AnzioWin starts at $150. Demos are availble. For more info see: http://www.anzio.com/support/vendors/Multivalue%20-%20Frequently%20asked%20questions.html Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Remote Printing
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, skunz...@comcast.net wrote: We are looking for remote printing options from Unidata for VPN users. Currently using a remote print manager called RPM by Brooks. Print Wizard can work for this as well. One possibility is to use the LPD protocol from the server, and run Print Wizard's LPD service to receive the jobs. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
On file transfer: Kevin King explained to me how he can use directory files in Universe to create a file that is visible to the underlying OS. This raises the possibility of firing off an OS-based file transfer protocol (such as 'sz' for Zmodem) to do a robust transfer. What do you think? On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Peter Schellenbach wrote: Later versions of AccuTerm support Print Wizard which will process documents that use PCL5 for formatting and print them on any Windows printer, or send the document as a pdf via email or fax. Lots of other bells whistles. The hooks to call Print Wizard can be used to pass the slave print job to any command. You just need to create a custom print adapter script (VBA) and tell AccuTerm to use it for slave printing. Regarding comments earlier in the thread, ASCII download (or simply using the data capture to capture the stream to a file) is faster because it is a blind transfer without any handshake or error checking. This is fine if you are using a network connection because the session is running TCP which by definition is an error-free flow-controlled connection. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: I'd opt for print wizard unless you want to hard code the PCL and avoid middleware. You can code the PCL font and spacing escape codes directly in your app and just print the code to the slave printer like normal. It's a little more design time, but it'll be a fairly static setup. If you want PCL example code to use print the label from Word to a Laserjet 4 driver set to print to file. Or, Google it. There are lots of PCL references on the web. I can help as well. That works up to a point. But Kevin said he wanted to CENTER variable-pitch text, which would require knowing and using the width of every possible character. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Kevin King wrote: While the PW thing looks cool, and especially the integration with AccuTerm, the customer is on an earlier version of AccuTerm and I'm not entirely certain I can convince them to upgrade. But... we have some really good ideas floating around here, and I appreciate all the input. In that case you can use Print Wizard Server Edition, and send the print job via LPD from the server to Print Wizard. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?
I'd like to offer a different approach to the problem. Besides determining emulator, it can potentially determine location, which printer to use, and more. The trick is to pass an environment variable to the host, at login time. The emulator can be configured to send whatever is needed. This is possible with both the telnet and the SSH protocol. This used to be an easy option in the days of telnet. Then, owing to the security implications of passing things like a PATH variable, it was restricted in various telnetd (daemon) programs. However, with OpenSSH's sshd, this is configurable. A setting in the sshd_config file specifies what environment variables can be passed (the default is none). Wildcards are accepted. So for instance, if you use Anzio as an SSH client, and you configure your sshd_config to allow ANZ_*, then any environment variable that the emulator sends that starts with ANZ_ will be accepted. The sshd will place allowed variables into the environment that is inherited by everything downstream. Any shell script or program can query for the existence and value of any specific variable. I don't know how many of the other emulators allow this. Anzio users use this to specify their internal IP address, their program type (Anzio Lite or AnzioWin), Windows machine name, username, screen size, variations on terminal type, timezone, file locations, Terminal Services information, etc. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] NLS and chinese printing question
The first step is to separate the printer from the BASIC (part of a general strategy to divide the problem into smaller pieces). So change your code below to output to a text file. Then look at it to see if you're getting into it what you think should be there. A hex editor is good for this. Then try sending that file directly to the printer, not using UniVerse. Then focus on where the problem seems to be. Of course if the only test printer is half a world away, that can be tough. We have considerable experience in working with international characters in a variety of environments. Our Print Wizard product can read and translate PCL-5 code, including emulating some of HP's Chinese cartridges. However, I don't recognize either the symbol set (18N) or the typeface (17006). What company supplied the DIMM? Is there documentation online for it? What kind of printer? Another solution may be to use Print Wizard and standard Chinese Windows fonts. We can help with that. Contact me off-list if you'd like. On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Brenda Price wrote: We are trying to get a printer over in Hong Kong that has recently had a DIMM chip installed with Andale Traditional Chinese font on it to print in Chinese. We cannot get the printer to recognize the font change. Anyone deal with double byte languages? Here is what we last tried. Only thing happened is the existing font changed size. Just doing some simple tests. EQU ESC TO CHAR(27) EXECUTE 'SETPTR 0,132,59,0,0,1,AT HONGKONGWH2,RAW,FORMAT.MAP BIG5+MARKS,COPIES 1,BRIEF' CHI.SEQ = ESC:(18N:ESC:(s1p12.0h8.5v0s0b17006T PRINT ESC:'E' PRINT CHI.SEQ:MSG2 Brenda L Price UniVerse Programmer Rapid Response Team Market America, Inc. Greensboro, NC ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] NLS and chinese printing question
So do you have it working now? With what sequence? What part number or model number is the HP DIMM? On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Brenda Price wrote: The vendor is HP and it is an HP DIMM. The rep sent us some more PCL codes to use. They said we were missing the escape codes to turn on double byte printing. Would have been nice if they had given us those codes when they gave us the font codes. Sigh! Brenda L Price UniVerse Programmer Rapid Response Team Market America, Inc. Greensboro, NC -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] NLS and chinese printing question The first step is to separate the printer from the BASIC (part of a general strategy to divide the problem into smaller pieces). So change your code below to output to a text file. Then look at it to see if you're getting into it what you think should be there. A hex editor is good for this. Then try sending that file directly to the printer, not using UniVerse. Then focus on where the problem seems to be. Of course if the only test printer is half a world away, that can be tough. We have considerable experience in working with international characters in a variety of environments. Our Print Wizard product can read and translate PCL-5 code, including emulating some of HP's Chinese cartridges. However, I don't recognize either the symbol set (18N) or the typeface (17006). What company supplied the DIMM? Is there documentation online for it? What kind of printer? Another solution may be to use Print Wizard and standard Chinese Windows fonts. We can help with that. Contact me off-list if you'd like. On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Brenda Price wrote: We are trying to get a printer over in Hong Kong that has recently had a DIMM chip installed with Andale Traditional Chinese font on it to print in Chinese. We cannot get the printer to recognize the font change. Anyone deal with double byte languages? Here is what we last tried. Only thing happened is the existing font changed size. Just doing some simple tests. EQU ESC TO CHAR(27) EXECUTE 'SETPTR 0,132,59,0,0,1,AT HONGKONGWH2,RAW,FORMAT.MAP BIG5+MARKS,COPIES 1,BRIEF' CHI.SEQ = ESC:(18N:ESC:(s1p12.0h8.5v0s0b17006T PRINT ESC:'E' PRINT CHI.SEQ:MSG2 Brenda L Price UniVerse Programmer Rapid Response Team Market America, Inc. Greensboro, NC ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [UV] printing html documents
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Dianne Ackerman wrote: I have some documents that were created by users using html editors (different kinds) which then were saved into uv files. I want to read in these documents from within a basic program and send them to the printer, all nicely formatted. Any ideas? The reason I'm doing it from basic is because I have a lot of other data that I'm working with also, the html files are just a small part of it. Thanks. The following assumes your system runs on a Unix/Linux/etc. server. If the user is connecting through a terminal emulator, you can use a file transfer protocol, such as Zmodem, to move a file to the user's PC. Then, depending on the emulator, you should be able to tell the emulator to tell the Windows shell to print the document -- the equivalent of doing a right-click and selecting print in Windows Explorer. Getting it to print on a particular printer is more challenging -- this is equivalent to dragging the file to a printer shortcut on the desktop. In Windows terminology it's called printto. Since I bring this up, you can probably guess that our terminal emulator, AnzioWin, handles this very well :-) If you'd prefer not to go through the emulator, we also offer Print Wizard. It can act as a print server on a Windows PC, receive jobs, and pass them off to Windows to print according to file extension. Feel free to contact me off list. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 is now Rocket U2
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Tony Gravagno wrote: No, PS/RD/TL no longer has development in Russia. However D3 does work in Cyrillic - and Thai. Not sure if any other MV DBMS produts can make the same claim. It was my understanding that JBase would work with Unicode data, stored in UTF-8 format. I'm not sure how thoroughly that carries through to the user interface. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [UV] Storing / Displaying the Euro symbol
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jacques G. wrote: Hello, Anyone here had to display the Unicode Euro symbol on the terminal ? I'd like to store it in a data item and be able to display it. I've looked at the UNICHARS command without luck. If you're talking about an actual (dumb) terminal, good luck with that. If you're talking about a terminal emulator, you will surely be dependent on the capabilities of the emulator. Our emulators, Anzio Lite and AnzioWin, can display the full range of Unicode characters. There are some configuration settings that must be correct; we could help you with that. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [UV] Storing / Displaying the Euro symbol
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jacques G. wrote: We are using terminal emulators. Putty and HostAccess are the most frequently used. So you should call them for tech support ... yeah, that'll work ;-) Seriously, if you'd like to consider using Anzio, we'll work with you on that. I don't know the nuances of configuring UV for international output, but I can learn. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation
You can try a free demo of AnzioWin from www.anzio.com On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Joshua Gallant wrote: We use AnzioWin and it fits our needs very well. - Josh -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Caminiti, Marc Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:15 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation Does anyone have any recommendations on a SSH client that has Viewpoint Emulation? We currently use Dynamic Connect, but do not think that it has SSH. Thanks in advance marc Marc Caminiti IS Manager Nashbar Direct, Inc 6103 State Route 446 Canfield, OH 44406 330.533.1989, ext 336 330.702.9733, fax Today's subliminal thought is: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. The information is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Kevin King wrote: Ah yes, the infamous putty tunnel, that miracle of a feature that makes putty one of those can't live without tools. Now if only we could minimize putty to the tray instead of the task bar, that would be even cooler. Or, you could run a terminal emulator that actually did the emulation you needed (and also does tunneling). Also does passthrough print with form overlays, PCL translation, PDF generation, fax output, FTP, SFTP, etc. See AnzioWin. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Telephony and U2
we have integrated these features into AnzioWin, our terminal emulation program. If you are working in a terminal emulation environment, we should talk. On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Jim wrote: Has anyone implemented Microsoft TAPI in a Universe application? Typical initial requirement: U2 program receives data identifying calling customer/person. U2 user sees customer(s) incoming call on screen, clicks to answer. Incoming phone number allows automatic U2 data display. More elaborate options are needed if the simple things are reliable. I'd be interested in developers who have done this or have already developed U2 software available. Specific user references to discuss their experience would be great. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] Scanner support (was Re: Telephony and U2)
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Robert Porter wrote: I agree. At least at this stage, don't take this offline. I didn't realize this was built into AnzioWin. And actually now with a quick look at the specs, scanner support either... which we might be able to use as well - more so than the TAPI. I'd like to hear about other possibilities as well. Robert refers to AnzioWin's scanner support. Because our documentation hasn't caught up with our features (I'm sure none of you have that problem), I'd encourage anyone interested to contact me off-list. In a nutshell, AnzioWin, our terminal emulation client, has a scanning capability that can be executed interactively, or it can be controlled from a server-based app. Possibilities include: * Scan and store * Scan and upload * Scan and view * Scan and print Programmed scanning can control all aspects of the scanning, so no user interface is presented. We're working on some features for batch scanning, with control sheets, to multiple TIF or PDF files. Finally, many of these features are also available in our Print Wizard DLL and EXE. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [UD] Logoff on Telnet Disconnect
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Kevin King wrote: Is there any UDT option that causes a Unidata (7.1.16) session to be dropped when the telnet session is inadvertently disconnected? Barring that, when a telnet session is inadvertently disconnected is there a reliable way (AIX 5) to determine that a session has or does not have a telnet client connected to it? I'll answer this from the perspective of an author of a telnet program. And by the way, the situation with an SSH connection is essentially the same. In general there are two situations: 1. Abrupt Disconnect If a) the network goes down, b) the user turns off a PC, or c) a user uses Task Manager to terminate a program, no network activity is received by the telnet daemon on the server. It will continue thinking all is good until it tries to send something, or a very long timeout occurs. Sometimes this is a good thing, because certain kinds of momentary drops in the network can be auto-repaired, with no loss of session. Because no termination has been received, the host process continues to run, waiting for input. You may need to terminate these processes, as they are essentially phantoms. 2.Orderly Disconnect If the user shuts down the client session in an orderly way, the client sends a closure to the host. The telnetd running on the host receives this, and converts it to a hangup signal, a SIGHUP. It sends this SIGHUP to the first-level process running on the associated pseudo-TTY (a PTY). (Terminology and behavior come from the days of modems.) That is where it gets interesting. Usually the pty is running one or more shell processes, each with a script, and one or more programs. Consider this chain of processes: telnetd - p1 - p2 - p3 - p4 where pn is either a shell process or a program (the capabilities are the same in what follows, although the syntax is different). The telnetd detects a disconnect, and sends a SIGHUP to process p1. By DEFAULT, the signal (SIGHUP) is propogated all the way to p4. Process p4 has a chance to detect that signal, close its files, maybe write log entries, and terminate cleanly. That termination might cause a termination in p3, or p3 might separately detect the signal and terminate. This behavior may be automatic in a particular language environment, or the application programmer may have a way to get involved in it. What often happens, though, is that p2, say, traps the signal. In a shell script, the syntax is actually trap n, where n is the number corresponding to SIGHUP (on Linux, kill -l tells me that SIGHUP is 1). If p2 traps the signal and terminates, process p3 and p4 are still running and are essentially orphaned. It is also possible for a process to trap and IGNORE a signal. Note also that some signals are mandatory, and force termination. Note that the Unix/Linux kill command is actually misnamed. It is in fact a way to send various signals to any process (if you have permission). Again, kill -l lists these signals. So kill can be used to test the setup. In a scenario like above, I can use kill -1 pid to send a SIGHUP to each process in the chain, and find out what happens. I would do two pieces of research. First, I would find out what support for signals the runtime language (Pick BASIC, etc.) has, and whether I as a programmer could tie in to that, and save my files, etc., when a SIGHUP occurs. Second, I would send a SIGHUP to p1 above, and see what happens. If all processes in the chain aren't terminated, I'd look at what intermediate processes are doing with signals. Usually, I'll find that a shell script is trapping signal 1, and it shouldn't be. Hope that helps. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: [U2] pcl imaging question...(clarification)
On Tue, 26 May 2009, George Gallen wrote: ... I guess I'm looking for information on how to convert the color to bw, what does the driver do to achieve this? It's not something per say that I want to actually write code to dowhat want to understand what the driver is doing. suggestions on search terms for google would be fine as well. So far the standard PCL color to black and white haven't really turned up the specifics of how it's done. The PCL color eventually results in a color raster (bitmap), which is a rectangular array of pixels, each having a certain color. If this needs to be printed on a monochrome printer, something (usually the printer driver) first converts each pixel to its grayscale equivalent. This is done by assigning a certain brightness weight to each of the red, green, and blue components of the color. Because our eyes are less sensitive to blue, it gets less weight in this process. Then the driver has to make grays out of a bunch of dots that are either black or white. It does this by assigning a pattern of black and white dots. This is called dithering, and there are several methods that can be used. Some printer drivers let you choose your dithering. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] pcl imaging question...
On Fri, 22 May 2009, George Gallen wrote: ok. All this talk about PCL images had me looking into this... I downloaded a few JPG - PCL image conversion programs, and attempted to send them to the printer directly, after looking at the code. Instead of getting the image (even a bW image), all I got was what looked like a bunch of 2D bar coding that was the size of the image. But if I view the PCL code in a PCL Viewer, it looks good. I'm guessing the problem is that the image was converted for viewing on the display (in RGB), but the printer is not RGB. Show do I convert the image from RGB PCL to PCL that I can print on the printer? What we wanted to do was scan an image, then convert the image to PCL, then work them into reports. Trying to send color PCL to a monochrome printer will definitely not work. For a task like this, I tend to think in terms of three general options: 1) Try a free utility, which might work, but has no support if it doesn't. When the circumstances change (a new printer, for instance) and it breaks, start over. 2) Study all the specs (JPEG format, PCL syntax, printer variations, etc.), stay up all night writing the code, and forget to make a living. 3) Buy an inexpensive, supported, robust program written by someone who has done steps 1 and 2. That would be me. Our Print Wizard package will do exactly what you want. It will also: a) handle other file formats (GIF, PNG, TIF, etc.). b) print to non-PCL printers. c) let you make the image any size you want. d) generate PDFs. e) generate faxes. f) save you time and money. See website for details. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] PDF printing, LaTeX, Ghostscript, etc. - [OT]
I was not aware of Lazarus! Looks very interesting. Thanks! On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Arnold Bosch wrote: Having noticed that a good part of development is done in Delphi, and the cross-platform dilemma, has anyone looked into FPC-Lazarus for development around UV ? Also coming from a Delphi environment, I have so far found it relatively easy to port my Delphi applications to FPC-Lazarus, and then with very minor modifications cross-compile for Windows, Linux and Windows CE. Arnold Bosch IT Administrator Taeuber Corssen SWA (Pty) Ltd Tel +264 (0)61 293 2106 Cell +264 (0)81 124 8625 Fax +264 (0)61 293 2104 -- --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] PDF printing, LaTeX, Ghostscript, etc.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Norman Bauer wrote: Glen,Bill, Ron, and Brian, Thanks for the input on this. Glen's way seems to be about the same way I am thinking of going about it. And it is proof enough to me that it is possible, allthough I am going to probably use LaTex to do the markup, it looks nicer. We are running UV on Windows and will be for the forseeable future however this would be a great oppertunity to intro Linux into the environment. My company is under new managment and they were always opposed to the idea, the new managment is looking to improve and cut cost. Although I haven't looked at LaTex for some time (if ever), and it might provide a very good solution, let me chime in to reinforce the earlier reference to Tony G's description of Print Wizard, our product. In a nutshell, you could program your UV to output HTML-like page descriptions. In fact, much of it could be HTML, although there is some HTML we don't support. Conversely, there are things we support that HTML doesn't such as specifying: * Generation of barcodes * Paper size, orientation, etc. * Precise placement of text and graphics on the page. * Form overlays * and more. The output of Print Wizard can go to: * Any Windows-supported printer * Windows-only printers * TIFF * Fax * PDF When you generate a PDF, you can also: * Create a table of contents * Attach other documents * Create internal or external links * Certify the document * Email it, interactively, semi-interactively, or automatically We're talking $300. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] PDF printing, LaTeX, Ghostscript, etc.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Norman Bauer wrote: Hey Bob, ... I favor LaTeX because of the huge community that surrounds it and the wealth of information that can be derived from it and because it produces beautiful documents. That being said, it's also very terse and not well known. Since I am the sole programmer I have to consider the person who will inevitably fill my shoes one day when I move on. What is the likely hood of them knowing LaTeX? How difficult would it be for them to learn? and so on. When taking questions like that into consideration you can see how they may tip the scales in favor of another method. Point well taken. Another point might be this: is the tool designed for the problem you're trying to solve? It would appear that LaTex was designed for fine-grained typesetting, including mathematical and engineering formulas. Print Wizard Markup Language, on the other hand, was designed for an easy and gradual evolution from traditional mono-spaced text reports (greenbar) to more complex formats. (Side note: Donald Knuth, the inventor of TeX, was in the audience of a presentation I did years ago at a Unicode conference, and actually came up afterward and asked some questions about international character set handling. I was a bit awestruck. He is also the author of a seminal series of books on computer algorithms.) Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] PDF printing, LaTeX, Ghostscript, etc.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Glen B wrote: Doesn't using PrintWizard imply the use of a Windows server somewhere? If not, then can you provide a link to your Linux version? I've looked your offering over several times and end up considering other options simply because I already have too many disparate servers forced to perform individual tasks due to vendor requirements. I'm hoping I missed something. I'm not yet at the virtualization point since one power supply has 10X higher of a chance of blowing up than 10 power supplies. It is true that Print Wizard runs on Windows, although it does not require a dedicated machine or even a particularly powerful machine. In this case, the original poster said his UV was running on Windows. Print Wizard is not particularly portable. It makes intensive use of the Windows printer driver, and nothing similar exists on the Unix/Linux platform. PW is written in Delphi, which is nominally portable to Linux (but not to SCO Open Server, for instance) as Kylix. Some time back I developed a version for Kylix that focused mainly on PDF creation, but it dies for lack of attention. If you need the functionality of Print Wizard and don't want to add a Windows box, then virtualization is probably the way to go. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [UV] Routine to print barcode on a PCL5 HP
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Brutzman, Bill wrote: It is worse than tough; without pricing info it is tease. Pricing info on Print Wizard is at www.anzio.com The Personal Edition starts at $99. The Server Edition starts at $300. --Bill -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony G Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:37 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] Routine to print barcode on a PCL5 HP Bob is a little too modest to mention his own PrintWizard product. Have a look at the CODE128.txt code provided by George, then compare all of that to this: PRINT \barcode pointsize=20 src=\ : BNUMBER : PRINT \ style=code128 addcheckchar=off\ How tough is that? Full samples are at the following link, with barcode, images, line drawing, overlays, and faxing - all with easily readable BASIC code. remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/products/PW/demo2.htm Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development and training services Nebula RD is not a reseller for Rasmussen Software. More info at the bottom of this page: remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/products/printwizard.htm -Original Message- From: Bob Rasmussen ras-at-anzio.com A great deal depends on the style of barcode you want. Some can have, or require, check digits, which complicates matters. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] [UV] Routine to print barcode on a PCL5 HP
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Jeff Schasny wrote: Anyone have a basic subroutine to print bar code on PCL5 HP printer that they would be willing to share? I'm attempting to not recreate the wheel if possible. A great deal depends on the style of barcode you want. Some can have, or require, check digits, which complicates matters. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] PCL Help
What are the end-of-line characters? If you are outputting only linefeeds, and nothing in the OS expands them to return-linefeeds, and the printer is not configured to read linefeeds as return-linefeeds, then you could get this behavior. Try a report with very short lines - does it stair-step? Quickest test/fix is to use the printer's front panel to configure end-of-line, to something like: LF = CR/LF (There is a whole host of problems similar to this that pop up when one thing changes, such as moving to a different physical printer or a different OS. The best solution is to include codes at the beginning of your PCL output to initialize everything conceivable. This isolates you from printer configuration variations, especially. Some other examples are symbol set, lines per page/vertical spacing, pitch, orientation, and paper size.) On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Caminiti, Marc wrote: I was wondering if anyone could help We recently upgraded to Universe 10.2.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and are now having problems printing out compressed reports on a HP LaserJet 4050 For the compressed reports, I send the PCL codes to switch the printer to landscape and to compress to 17cpi. When the report prints, it is only printing the first line of data and nothing else. It is compressing and in landscape. If I send it to a file, all of the data is there. Below is what is being sent. The only thing that is printing is the MC 10:41:09am 28 Nov 2008 BIKE NASHBAR PAGE 1 Within RedHat (CUPS) the make Model is Local Raw Printer. Even when I try without any compression codes, it only prints the first line of data. When I have the RedHat (CUPS) make model to HP LaserJet 4050, the non-compressed/non-landscaped print, prints fine. But when I try and send the PCL codes, it just spits out plan sheets of paper. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Already spend 3 1/2 hours of different combinations and cannot come up with anything that works. Thanks in advance Marc l1O(s22H MC 10:41:09am 28 Nov 2008 BIKE NASHBAR PAGE 1 DAILY PURCHASING REPORT AS OF 28 Nov 2008 BYR PGC ITEM NUMBER. DESCRIPTION QAV.. QOR. QOH.. ONORD DLD.. WK1.. WK2.. WK3.. WK4.. YACT YTD LY DMD.. MSRP $ CAT $. WEB $. LAST. EXT'D COST MARGIN PO #'S. VEND# ST INV PIC. LS. COST. LIFE TKV N IS-TEST2-A BLAH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.50 2.500 *** 0.500 0.000 80.00% A JB N IS-TEST-DEVON IS TEST SKU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.00 2.000 2.00 0.001 0.000 99.95% 6103 A TKV N IS-TEST-JIM IS TEST SKU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.00 2.000 2.00 0.001 0.000 99.95% 6103 A JB N IS-TEST-MARC IS TEST SKU 0 0 0 1 05/15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.00 2.000 2.00 0.001 0.000 99.95% 20325 9 A 1 03/31 20390 6103 1 10/21 21120 6103 1 07/09 6103-12 6103 3 1 11/03 6103-MC 6103 1 11/19 6103MAR 6103 C TKV N IS-TEST-TAMMY IS TEST SKU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.00 2.000 2.00 0.001 0.000 99.95% 6103 A *** 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0.000 Marc Caminiti IS Manager Nashbar Direct, Inc 6103 State Route 446 Canfield, OH 44406 330.533.1989, ext 336 330.702.9733, fax Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. The information is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] RE: Ssh connections to Universe DB?
I'm exploring a possibility, and would like feedback. The problem: administrators want the security that SSH offers, but Universe (and some others) running on Windows offers only telnet access. Possible solution: 1) Obtain and run an SSH daemon on the Windows server, such as WinSSHd. 2) Run an SSH client with tunneling capabilities, to connect from a Windows desktop, via SSH, to the WinSSHd on the server. 3) Configure that SSH client to do local port forwarding (tunneling) of some arbitrary port (say, 1234) on the client PC to port 23 (the telnet port) on the server's localhost (that is, the server). 4) Run a (2nd) terminal emulator on the client, connected to the client's localhost, port 1234. The client's SSH receives a connection on its port 1234, and forwards it to the server, causing a connection to the server's port 23, where Universe's telnetd receives it. Connection is made. Because the tunneled connection is within the SSH session, it is authenticated and encrypted. I just tested this scenario using AnzioWin (our terminal emulator/SSH client) and it all appears to work. Is anyone doing this? Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It occurs to me that we could add functionality to AnzioWin to allow telnet over SSH all in one running program. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Print to PDF
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Amy Raisanen wrote: We just got started building a web application and got stumped trying to create a pdf with the information the user has already provided us. How do we create a pdf and also create an auto filled pdf application/form? Are we going to need to purchase software? [Ad] We can offer a solution, if you are open to including a Windows system in the mix. This solution is Print Wizard, a Windows-based print processing program. Print Wizard offers a high-level print description language called PWML (Print Wizard Markup Language). This language is based on HTML, and looks like HTML. In fact, it can use many HTML tags, such as for setting font (FONT) and bold (B), and including images (IMG). It has other tags that overcome some of HTML's weaknesses, such as the GOTO tag that allows positioning text in a precise location on the page, in inches, cm, etc. from the edge of the page. And it has other tags that do things that HTML doesn't even address, such as printing barcodes and specifying form overlays. Print Wizard can output to any printer, or to fax, or, for your purposes, to PDF. This uses our own PDF generator; it is not dependent on Ghostscript or anything else. This means that you can have your application generate PWML text and have Print Wizard convert it to PDF. We have several options for communicating between a AIX/Unix/Linux system and a Windows system. If you want to contact me, we can discuss those options. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Extra Form Feed from .prn File Followed by Text
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Don P. Nagai wrote: Help! Im trying to print a form created from Word combined with text. This method has always worked when creating prn files using a PCL5/5e driver, removing the standard escape sequences that trigger form feeds, and then sending the trimmed file in RAW format to an HP printer running either PCL5 or 6. Its worked fine until now. A new customer has Windows Server 2003 x64, an HP P1505n Laser Jet and the prn files were created with XP Pro drivers. Now every time we attempt to print, the form comes out on one page and the text on the next page. If we build the prn files for an older HP model (say Laser Jet 1300 PCL5e) we get a single page, but the text and portions of the form are garbled. Ive contacted HP and their suggestion was to use Laser Jet 6L drivers. The print jobs still generated the extra form feed. Do you know that there's an added formfeed, or might there be something else added which implicitly causes a formfeed? That is, have you looked at the data that the printer is actually getting, by capturing your combined output to a file? Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] terminal emulator
Anzio Lite and AnzioWin work fine in Citrix. See website below. On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Bob Witney wrote: We are using PowerTerm Lite as our terminal emulator Works fine from a PC but sadly won't work through Citrix Is anyone using a terminal emulator via Citrix (we have MAC's that need to come across that way) Thanks Bob Witney IT Senior Explore Worldwide Nelson House 55 Victoria Road Farnborough Hants GU14 7PA Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the named addressee, or the person responsible for delivering the message to the named addressee, please notify the sender as soon as possible and delete the material from your computer. This message will be protected by copyright. If it has come to you in error, you must not take any action based on its contents nor must you copy or show the message to any person other than the intended recipient. _ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Revisiting: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix
This is a followup to an earlier online conversation. With some help from a local expert, I now have a Universe Personal Edition running on a Windows platform. I find that it DOES have the flexibility I needed. If you do a SETPTR with an option GDI, it outputs using the Windows printer interface and the designated driver (so to speak), in the configured font and size. If you were to include PCL codes in this approach, they would not work, but would get drawn on the page. If you do a SETPTR with an option RAW, it outputs at what I call a spooler level, transparently to the printer (via the spooler). PCL codes are passed through, even if this is a non-Generic driver. Dave, have you tried RAW? On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Bob Rasmussen wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Dave Taylor wrote: Bob, In Universe on Windows, there is no Universe spooler. You print directly to a Windows printer. If you want to pass PCL commands to that printer, you have to assign it the Generic/Text 0nly driver from the Windows Generic mfg. I guess I don't know what you mean by spooler mode and I've never heard of Windows commands like StartDocPrinter, WritePrinter, EndDocPrinter so I'm not familiar with how they work. Are they Windows commands? Or, Universe commands? These are Windows commands. See, for instance http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535522(VS.85).aspx It would be a logical thing, I think, for Universe to use this approach to writing to a printer, at least as an option. This would allow programmers to work in Windows the same way they did on Unix. Is a Universe demo available from IBM? Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix
While the comments below are mostly accurate, I offer some fine-point clarifications. On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Robin Smith wrote: I agree with Jerry that it seems strange that HP would do this as they have their own *nix but Left Hand and Right Hand springs to mind!! HP still seems to be producing printers that can handle PCL5 (and PCL6 and PostScript). These tend not to be their multi-function printers (MFPs), and not their lowest-cost units. I recently purchased a Color Laserjet CP3505, which can accept all three of these languages plus PDF! The problem is more fundamental as I see it. HP in their infinite wisdom have dropped PCL5 in favour of PCL6. This is fine if you are on Windows using the correct Windows printer drivers. However, if you live in the real world like a lot of us in the U2 arena and work on a flavour of Unix (AIX, HP, Linux etc) then we don't have Windows printer drivers. First, note that PCL6 is completely different from PCL5; it is not a newer, upgradeable version. And as I stated, many PCL6 printers also support PCL5. Also, if you use PCL5 escape sequences to format yur printing - this is how SB+ printing works - PCL6 doesn't understand the sequences. We have found that some HP printers that use PCL6 emulation claim to be backwards compatible to PCL5. BEWARE - this is often a very reduced version of PCL5 with only one or two fonts/typefaces supported and a reduced set of escape sequences. Also, if you use PCL5 sequences in the MS Windows environment (again SB+ does this) then the Windows PCL6 drivers don't recognise them. Actually, neither PCL5 NOR PCL6 drivers recognize PCL. If you run a program that outputs using the Windows printing interface (we call this high-level printing), as Notepad does for instance, a PCL5 driver will convert that to PCL5, and a PCL6 driver will convert that to PCL6; then the printer will interpret those codes. If you run something that internally generates PCL5, such as SB+, then it can't do that high-level printing, or the PCL5 codes would get written on the page. Instead, these programs must write at a lower level (what we call spooler mode), which bypasses all parts of the driver except the part that sends a stream of bytes to the printer. Think of it as one notch above copying a file to PRN. In this approach (spooler mode), it generally doesn't matter WHAT kind of printer driver is used. What's important is that the printer understand what you're sending it. (For the printer I mentioned above, I can send it the contents of a PDF file using spooler mode, and it prints fine.) PCL6 is very similar to GDI using a graphical interface to the printers rather than ASCII characters that we are all used to. That's true. Most graphics drawing commands in Windows mapdirectly to PCL6 commands. Hope this helps. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. Providers of Print Wizard personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Carl Dula wrote: Take a look at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/printer/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.printers.cutSheetPrinters/com.ibm.printers.20607590105ethernettringconfig/etr1mst246.htm This suggests to me that IBM has a way to send basic plain text data to a PCL6 printer. It does NOT, however, suggest that this would give you an easy way to specify fonts, draw logos, etc. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Bill Haskett wrote: Robin: Half of our client's HP printers are installed with PCL6 onto Windows servers. Our PCL5 print jobs (including forms with HP-GL/2) haven't had any problem printing to those printers. I haven't been paying much attention to this because it hasn't been a problem. Do you think this is strictly a ..nix problem or am I missing something on Windows? This tells me that your software is not using the drivers, but is writing out at a spooler level (see my earlier post). [AD] Our Print Wizard software can do many of these tasks for you, and solve a wide range of printing challenges. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Dave Taylor wrote: Hi Bob, You stated below that In this approach (spooler mode), it generally doesn't matter WHAT kind of printer driver is used. What's important is that the printer understand what you're sending it. Actually, it *does* matter what kind of printer driver you use because if you use the printer mfg's driver it will *not* pass the PCL commands thru to the printer. In Windows, you must use the Generic Text/Only driver from the Generic printer mfg if you want the PCL commands passed thru to the printer. Plus you must choose the WinPrint Print Processor and the Raw Data Type. The key difference between your set of conditions and mine is this: I am referring to printing in spooler mode. At the Windows API level, this means StartDocPrinter, WritePrinter, EndDocPrinter. (High level printing in Windows involves doing TextOut or similar commands.) I don't know what level Universe and/or Unidata uses for its printing; it would be helpful to know. One way to test would be to use a non-Generic driver, and set it to print to file, then send me the file. In Linux, you must also use the Text-Only driver and you must reconvert each LF to a CR/LF because Linux strips off the CR from each CR/LF. I'm not addressing Linux at all. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Dave Taylor wrote: Bob, In Universe on Windows, there is no Universe spooler. You print directly to a Windows printer. If you want to pass PCL commands to that printer, you have to assign it the Generic/Text 0nly driver from the Windows Generic mfg. I guess I don't know what you mean by spooler mode and I've never heard of Windows commands like StartDocPrinter, WritePrinter, EndDocPrinter so I'm not familiar with how they work. Are they Windows commands? Or, Universe commands? These are Windows commands. See, for instance http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535522(VS.85).aspx It would be a logical thing, I think, for Universe to use this approach to writing to a printer, at least as an option. This would allow programmers to work in Windows the same way they did on Unix. Is a Universe demo available from IBM? Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
[U2] Looking for ALIS
I just had a call from an Anzio (our product) user, new to her job, who is trying to find out if there is support for her freight forwarding app, called ALIS. Anyone have any info? Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] UniData and Unicode
I'm responding to the other responses, to some degree... Most MultiValue systems are data transparent; what goes in comes out. Except for the special characters in MV, which I believe are decimal 252 and up. However, in contradiction to an earlier response, these characters are not used in UTF-8. UTF-8 is a way of storing Unicode in which a character requires one or more bytes for storage. It is quite well designed. Control characters and ASCII are the same. Characters above hex 7F are NOT the same as is any codepage-based system. I believe that you can store UTF-8 in MV. You just have to decide that that is the coding scheme which your bytes represent, and be consistent about it. Our terminal emulator, AnzioWin can send its characters to the server as UTF-8, understand characters coming from the server as UTF-8, switch fonts automatically to find a font that contains each character, and print data as UTF-8 (again with auto-font usage). There can still be issues. Most notably, you can no longer assume that a byte in the database requires one cell to display or print. We'd be happy to work with anyone in this regard. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images
This was on the subject of using HTML to send formatted page output to users. On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Charles Barouch wrote: Bob, 1) The client is dealing in acceptance letters, so wide isn't an issue. For columnar reports, they use Informer. 2) Paging can be controlled. It took me a long time to find the code, but you can set print page breaks in an HTML document. I've only tested it with FireFox on a PC, but it is supposed to work in all browsers. E-mail me off line and I'll dig out the logic and send it to you. Or you could just chase me down at Spectrum. 3) Since we only print internally, I do have font control because I can specify which fonts must be installed on a PC or Mac, guaranteeing a match for the fact I ask for. Your specific set of requirements may work in this case. I'd be interested in seeing a sample output HTML file, to see how pagination is handled. My understanding is that CSS is the only way of addressing this, and IE doesn't handle it well. That's something they're claiming to fix in IE 8, now in beta. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Robin Smith wrote: We use Universe with SB+ on both Windows and Unix. We have a customer who is looking to print documents to a colour laser printer that not only include normal textual output but also incorporate a grahical image embedded within the document. The graphical image is variable per document and will be specified at run time and picked up from a link to an image file e.g. C:\images\picturexx.jpg. Has anyone any experience of doing this and is there any U2 specific software to facilitate the process? Here are some other questions you might want to ask: 1) Will you want only one image per page (such as a company logo), or multiple (a signature, pictures of products, etc.)? 2) What file formats (JPG, PNG, BMP) do you want to support? 3) How device-independent do you want this to be? That is, how many different types of laser printer do you want to support now and in the future? 4) Is it an option to modify the report output to specify the graphic(s), or does this need to be done post-generation? 5) Is it an option to bring a Windows machine into the printing pipeline, even if your U2 runs on Unix? [Ad] We offer a printing tool called Print Wizard. While it is not U2 specific, or even MV specific, it is very powerful. It runs on a Windows machine, but can accept data from a Unix machine. Running on Windows, it has the advantage of being able to use the Windows printer driver, which means it can output to virtually any printer, including Windows-only printers. Its output is controlled by an HTML-like markup language, butit also has some post-generation capabilities. More data is ont he website below. Or catch my presentation at Spectrum upcoming. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Charles Barouch wrote: Robin, I build the document as HTML and send it to a person to review and print. Not 100% automated, but my client wants a person to review anyway... Given the oft-noted behaviors of web browsers when printing, how do you deal with the following problems?: 1) If the report is in a wide format, such as classic 132-column reports, the browser will simply drop the right side (although IE7 did add some shrink-to-fit logic). 2) You have no control over pagination, meaning you can not put column headers at the top of page 2, for instance, because you don't know where the top of page 2 is. 3) You have not explicit control over font size. Do you use CSS for this? In general, my perception is that HTML is not a satisfactory way to deliver reports. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Color Laser PCL
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have posted this in CDP once and got the enclosed answer. According to the manual that was quoted, it should be working, but it is not. I am using a Dell 3110cn Color laser printer. We are printing from Universe with a Windows 2003 server using the windows generic text driver. I do get output, but it's always in gray scale. Never in color. Note: when I print the windows test page from another pc using the dell drivers, it's in color, so color does work. Just not from the PCL below. Any Ideas would be most appreciated. Here is the program was provided by Frank Winans from CDP. Thanks in advance. equ ESC to CHAR(27), CBLK to 0, CRED to 1, CGRN to 2 equ CYEL to 3, CBLU to 4, CMGN to 5, CCYN TO 6, CWHT TO 7 EQU ESC TO CHAR(27) PRINTER ON PRINT ESC:*r3U: ;* set up an rgb type 8-color palette PRINT ESC:*v:CRED:S: PRINT Red : PRINT ESC:*v:CBLU:S: PRINT Blue : PRINT ESC:*v:CBLK:S: PRINT black PRINTER OFF In cases such as this, it is a good idea to divide the process into steps, and see which step has the problem. For instance, configure your printer driver to print to file, then run the program, then examine the file produced to see it it contains what you expect it to contain. Then send it to the printer. Because I have an HP Color LaserJet 4550 PCL printer (and I'm a nice guy), I created a file that had those escape sequences (not using Pick, just a low-level editor), and ran it out to my printer. It printed each word in the proper color. So that says the code sequence is right, for an actual PCL printer. Email me privately if you'd like my test file. Also, it's possible that there is a problem in using the Generic driver. Try a different driver. But consider this: you can spend a LOT of time hand-writing PCL sequences. If you value your time, you might use a tool to make this easier. With our Print Wizard product, you could generate the following print data: = PWMLBODYPRE FONT color=redRed FONT color=blueBlue FONT color=blackBlack = ...and pass it to Print Wizard, which will render the intended output on ANY printer with a proper Windows driver. If you think this looks like HTML, that is intentional. We mimic HTML in many ways, but also include tags for barcodes, paper sizes, orientation, overlays, etc. Details on our web site. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Problems with disconnects - telnet
As the author of a telnet/SSH package, I have discussed this problem in various forums over the years. Here is what I have learned. It is often possible to prevent a process from being terminated when a connection is dropped, by trapping the hangup signal (SIGHUP) generated by the telnetd or sshd. However, I have never heard of a way to reconnect to an orphaned session. So this is only half a solution. The only solution I have heard of is 'screen', a utility on some Unix/Linux systems that is intended for managing multiple sessions over one terminal connection. But screen also has a capability to leave sessions open, and a capability to reconnect to orphaned sessions. I have often considered modifying the SSH daemon provided by OpenSSH, freely available in source form, to allow for these options. Anyone interested in funding such a project? Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] forms / imaging / doc overlay software
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jerry Neff wrote: Terry, you received an impressive response to your inquiry. I am looking for a way to display tax forms, with data, to the web where users can print their own form once logged into their account. For us emailing, printing and mailing are too costly. If I understand correctly, you're looking at a situation where the user has only a web browser with which to access your system, and you want to deliver precise print output. You most likely have no control over, or even knowledge of, what kind of printer they have. You certainly can't rely on the printing capabilities of the browser. Do I need to support that statement? There are really only two ways to do that: a) PDF generation, and b) client-side code. I'll discuss both. a) PDF generation A PDF has the benefit of portability (that's what the P is for). Adobe Reader is available on a variety of platforms, users can view as well as print, and it can print very reliably on virtually any printer. You can generate PDFs on demand, using a variety of software tools, but it isn't necessarily easy, especially from a legacy programming environment. Adding form images complicates matters. b) Client-side code A piece of code running on the client's machine, such as a browser add-in or an ActiveX object, has the advantage of having closely-coupled access to the user's printer. It knows how big the paper is, and how much of the page the printer can print on. If it gets told to print something precisely, it can do so. As you might guess, we have solutions available for both scenarios, as follows: a) Print Wizard as a PDF generator Our Print Wizard software can run on any Windows platform, and take as input a text file with a (optionally) a few HTML-like markup tags. You would also tell PW to use a particular file as an overlay. And finally, you tell PW that its output should be a PDF with a certain name. So in a nutshell, PW provides a high-level interface to PDF generation. b) Web Print Object (WePO) WePO is an ActiveX object that can be download-installed onto users' PCs, if they are running IE on Windows. You then build a web page to contain the object and tell it what to print. When the user clicks the Print button (presented by the object), WePO fetches a specified report file and a specified overlay from your server, and prints the output on the user's printer. The report file and the overlay file are as described in a) above. Demos of all this are available on our website. Feel free to contact me for help in understanding what we offer. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] forms / imaging / doc overlay software
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Terry Stennette wrote: Hello U2 group, Anyone out there using and / or have a recommendation for a forms imaging / document overlay software package that runs in a Universe / AIX environment. Goal being to use the software rather than buy pre-printed forms. Any ideas would be appreciated. [Ad] If you will consider a solution that leverages a Windows PC as a printer server, you will get lower cost and more features. For $300 you can purchase Print Wizard Server Edition. It can combine your EXISTING reports with a form file that you can create in FIVE MINUTES, and print it on any Windows-supported printer. To create your form image from a PDF, XLS, DOC, etc. format, just print-to-file with a Laserjet driver. That is all. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Graphic Printing
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James F Thompson wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion for doing graphical printing from Windows and Aix? I need to be able to embed dynamic images (i.e. Division logo, Shipping label), along with form data. We are using Universe. Please take a look at our Print Wizard product. You send your Pick-generated printfile to Print Wizard (by one of several means), and it does all the heavy lifting. For the scenario you have described, there are two possible approaches: 1) Build an overlay file, that has your logo and other static data to be printed on every page, using Word, Excel, Publisher, or whatever. Export as EMF, or print-to-file as PCL-5. Tell PW to use this as an overlay. From Universe, send your print job as either plain text or PCL-5. OR 2) Alter your program to output a bit of Print Wizard Markup Language (PWML) at the beginning of the job, telling PW to draw an image (IMG) at the correct place on the page. PWML is similar to HTML. The output of PW can be printout on any printer (not necessarily PCL-5), PDF, PDF-and-email-it, fax, TIF, or TIF-and-email-it. A demo version is on the web site below. And we're eager to help. (This is not a Pick-only product, so there's a lot of general information in the documentation. We can help you weed through that.) Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Epson DLQ3500 dot-matrix printer
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Andrew Lakeland wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any experience of printing barcodes on Epson printers? We have an Epson DLQ3500 dot-matrix printer (in fact we have bought loads of them for Poland). ... I can't tell you whether that particular Epson has built-in support for barcodes; that is, a barcode font. Some dot matrix printers do, although it can be laborious to set up space translation, check digit generation, etc. [AD] We have a program, Print Wizard, that can generate 15 kinds of barcodes on any Windows-supported printer. Barcodes are specified with an HTML-like tag. For a U2 environment, you would need to route your print job through a Windows machine. We offer several ways to do that. See website below. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Printing solutions
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, James Hutchinson wrote: We are wanting to print invoices, statements, etc with window's like formatting. [AD] (I think that is the protocol) Our Print Wizard product addresses all these points. I'll tell you right up front that it runs on a Windows platform, but you can feed it from a Unix/Linux/Whatever platform, via any of several protocols, to take advantage of the Windows printing interface and print your output on any printer that Windows supports. Here are some key points: DATA FORMAT 1) Plain text - gets auto-fitted to the page, with automatic pagination detection, tab expansion, international support, etc. 2) Tab-separated values - gets automatically columnized (is that a word?). 3) PCL-5 - gets translated and printed on any printer, or other output as below. 4) HTML/PWML - we understand much (not all) of HTML, and augment it with tags for controlling pagination, barcodes, precise placement, etc. We call this Print Wizard Markup Language. By making your Basic program output PWML code, you can specify elaborate printout at a high level. DATA MANIPULATION 1) Set margins, pitch, linespacing, etc. 2) Add form overlays, for plain-paper printing. OUTPUT DESTINATION 1) Direct to printer. 2) Through Windows to any Windows-supported printer. 3) To Windows fax engine, for programmatic faxing. 4) To PDF (with no additional software). Optionally view the PDF. Optionally email the PDF. 5) To TIF, opt. view and/or email. Virtually every combination is possible. So you can take a PWML report specified by Basic, combine it with a PCL form overlay, render it to PDF, and email it, all automatically. Demos, pricing, and more info on the website below. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] and PDF
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Brutzman, Bill wrote: What products are available to be able to create and manage Adobe pdf documents in a world of UniVerse, HP-Ux, and wIntegrate and Dynamic Connect clients? Print Wizard (our product) can do that. A key question for any of these products is this: how easy is it to specify what goes into the PDF? Print Wizard gives you these options: 1. Plain text (with CRs, LFs, maybe tabs, maybe even backspace-underlining and backspace-bolding) will be auto-fit to the page. Even print jobs without formfeeds will generally be paginated correctly. 2. PCL-5 files will be interpreted and rendered to PDF. This includes HP/GL, color, images, fonts, character sets, and emulation of cartridges with barcode and Chinese capabilities. If you have a PCL file that Print Wizard DOESN'T render correctly, please email it. 3. HTML. Print Wizard handles some, but not all, HTML files. 4. Print Wizard Markup Language (PWML). This is our version, based on HTML, plus control of many things HTML doesn't address, including orientation, paper size, barcodes, precise placement, rotated text, and more. With all of these, it is also possible to add a form image (an overlay or background), in any of several file formats. Note that Print Wizard runs on a Windows platform. However, we support several protocols for routing Unix/Linux jobs to the Windows PC where PW is running. See website for more. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] select statement with single quotes
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Glen Batchelor wrote: ... to the regular typeset curly single quote. Extended ASCII is not represented in Unicode, so it should not be used for data storage. Huh? What extended ASCII characters are not represented somewhere in Unicode? Or do you mean that characters often shown with hex values between 80 and 9F do not have the same values in Unicode? The latter is true. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
