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

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

Chuck


On 1/29/2014 10:43 PM, Anthonys Lists wrote:
On 28/01/2014 20:59, Charles Stevenson wrote:
Anthony pretty much nailed how we're doing it.

But my original question is still unanswered.
I want to make sure it's a valid printer before I start printing to it.
I think I problably need to do something like
EXECUTE "DOS /C [some-command] \\MY_PRINT_SERVER\PrinterName" CAPTURING DOSMSG
    IF DOSMSG = [something bad] THEN  . . .

I was hoping someone in this august body had crossed that bridge before.

We never had that problem.

I had a PRINTER subroutine or suchlike that accessed a printers file with all the parameters. Any programatic (or user command line) attempt to access a printer was via my stuff, that checked this file, and set things up accordingly.

So as far as eg accounts was concerned, they had the ACCOUNTS printer. Whenever anything changed, I simply changed the ACCOUNTS entry in the parameter file. Very useful, because on the odd occasion when a printer went down I just made a temporary change to the file and everything got diverted :-)

If tyou're interested, let me know and I'll see if I can find the code - I know I had it but it's a long time ago ...

Cheers,
Wol
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