Re: FORMS 4.5 - WIN95 - How to print a file using FFI?
From: Steve Cosner <stevec_at_zimmer.csufresno.edu>
Date: 1997/10/07
Message-ID: <876244418.6908_at_dejanews.com>#1/1
Date: 1997/10/07
Message-ID: <876244418.6908_at_dejanews.com>#1/1
In article <60u7lq$mqf$1_at_news01.btx.dtag.de>,
Michael.A.Vogt_at_t-online.de (Michael Vogt) wrote:
> Does anybody knows a way to print a file within a FORMS 4.5 -
> procedure?
> 16-bit FORMS 4.5 on WIN3.11 had the possibility to use the Foreign
> Function Interface to call the 'spoolfile' API-Function. But on WIN95
> it doesn't work ... :-(
A developer here uses the Text_IO package to write a file to disk, and then uses the Forms HOST command with an LPR network command to send the file to a printer on his network. The HOST command with a DOS Print command might work for you.
Regards,
Steve Cosner
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