Re: Reports and UNIX Stuff

>I have a report running from a UNIX box over an intranet and I need to
>allow my users to specify which print tray they would like it to run from.
>
>I am passing the tray name as a parameter to the report and I have used the
>SRW.SET_PRINTER_TRAY( :PARAMETER) command in the before_report trigger. This
>seems to do absolutely nothing, it still comes out of the default tray. I
>figure this may be because I have looked up the names of the available trays
>in my windows printer settings and UNIX thinks the trays are called
>different names so it ignores me and goes for the default. My UNIX is
>appalling and I don't know how to find the names of the available trays
>assuming this is possible. If you think this is the problem and can tell me
>how to get the tray names.
>
>My other cunning plan was to add a before report printer escape command to
>the property palette however this too seems to do nothing. The escape
>command is ESC&l#H (#being the tray number 0 to 8). Problems with this may
>include the fact that I can't type an escape character into the property
>palette (although I'm not sure I need to do this seen as it knows it's a
>printer escape - so I tried it without to no avail). I've tried chr(27)
>which doesn't work plus \027, <27>, ctrl-p and esc none of which work.
>
>I've wasted several trees already and any help would be great even if it's
>only to say give up it can't be done.
>
>Thanks for any help
>Jacqui

I don't know how you'd get the tray names in UNIX, however, Oracle tools usually recognise \e as the escape character, so it may be worth giving that a try.
Hope this helps,
 Rob Received on Mon May 29 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST