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From: roy@medstar.UUCP (Roy Talledo)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: dBASE III Problem - Routing to Printer
Message-ID: <174@medstar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 10:29:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 10:29:51 1985
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Organization: Medical Systems Technology and Research, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
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> 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
> 
> The dBASE manual mentions that the program itself doesn't handle
> alternate output ... but our printer (MX-100, parallel) is never off/out
> of paper ... Ironically, routing ouput to the printer through "ASSIST"
> never seems to produce problems !!

I have never had any problems with either dBASE command mentioned above.
The only bug that I have seen reported is when the printer if off and you
try to print to it, dBASE will hang.

Try looking at the command line that ASSIST generates and compare it with
your command line. Also try using set device to print and set console off 
before issuing the report form <filename> to print command. This is what I
use all of the time and have never had any problems.

-- 
Roy Talledo
Systems Research, Medical Systems Technology & Research, Atlanta, GA
 
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