Re: Screen Printing - Simple, Right? (HELP!) - plane [1/1]

Brian Graham (GrahamB_at_psac.com) wrote:
> I'm trying to let the user select the desired printer when doing a screen
> print. I have found out that Forms 3 (on Solaris at least) directs the
> output via lp.
 

> Second alternative. I have preset LPDEST for the user. Then from a menu I
> invoke a script changing LPDEST (& export it). Now the user can change
> printers before screen printing, right? WRONG. The variable remains
> unchanged in the application. The HOST command seems very good at creating
> a shell and I cannot change the variable permanently (ie in the Sql*Forms
> application), even by invoking the script via ". progname" .
 

> Any ideas?? I'm running out (& I don't like giving up!).

Perhaps you could write an user exit which alters the LPDEST for the current process.

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