Re: Printing on Financials (Unix)

In article <rmonkD0to4s.Fss_at_netcom.com> rmonk_at_netcom.com (Renegade Monk) writes:
>
>I have a question regarding Oracle Financials Concurrent Manager printing
>on Unix systems (specifically Solaris 2.3 on a Sun SparcServer 1000,
>Oracle Financials 9.3.7):
>
>does the conc. man. issue a standard lp type command to the system when
>a job needs to print a report?
>
>If so, can you give me an example of a command line (does it specify
>a destination, and whether or not to use sym. links)?
>
>What I am trying to do is set up a number of "virtual" printers that reside
>on another network (a novell lan 8-) and want to know how and where the
>output files are dealt with by the conc. man.

No, if you look in $FND_TOP/bin you'll find a shell-script entitled 'FNDPRINT'. This is the driver responsible for printing.

It parses the arguments that the Concurrent Manager passes to it, then calls a printer program called $FND_TOP/bin/FNDPRPRT which does the actual printing. You can hack FNDPRINT about all you like to get it to do what you want.

I recently hacked it to alter foreign characters from Oracle into the correct mappings for the printers we have, plus you can let it print to tcp ports, which you'll need to do with Novell. Although, the TCP port information is more a problem at the operating system layer.

If you want some help on this, please feel free to email me.

You could try the addresses of:

	descarte_at_alma.europe.adobe.com
	Alistair_Carty_at_ADOBEEDI_at_adobeeur.amst.europe.adobe.com

instead of the one listed above.

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