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From: traill@utcsri.UUCP (J. Traill)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: dBASE III Problem - Routing to Printer
Message-ID: <1157@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 15:25:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.1157
Posted: Sun Jun  2 15:25:04 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Jun-85 15:41:39 EDT
Reply-To: traill@utcsri.UUCP (J. Traill)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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We've recently purchased dBASE III and, as we're not registered yet,
Ashton-Tate doen't recognize us as "real".  The problem I'm coming across is
routing output to the printer:

report form <filename> to print

* and *

set print on

occasionally either:

- print "^C" on the screen and dump me back to DOS

- print cryptic garbage on the screen and dump me back to DOS

Both instances mean I must go through the two-disk booting procedure,
although I've not lost data yet.  The dBASE manual mentions that the
program itself doesn't handle alternate output (e.g. it's all DOS's
fault), but our printer (MX-100, parallel) is never off/out of paper
when the problem occurs.  As I said, the problem occurs perhaps half
the time.  Ironically, routing ouput to the printer through "ASSIST"
never seems to produce problems !!

HELP ?!


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