Hi
here's a seemingly simple task that wortks fine under HPUX but seems
a royal pain under Win 95:
Namely I want to print some data, issue a form feed and then print
some more data.
Under HPUX I simple use a "to Print" object and
write text a
write text inttochar(12)
write text b
and it works great (12 is ascii decimal code for form feed)
On my WIN95 PC this doesn;t work and the reason is alluded to in
the "help" system: namely that "control characters" on the PC cannot be
embedded in a print job. Sounds like a limitation of the print drivers
rather than VEE per se.
The suggested alternative is to use a _to file_ pointed at the
printer port (LPT1 or whatnot) which seems klunky at best.
Is there perhaps a better way of doing this?
thanks for any hints
Stan Bischof
stanb@sr.hp.com
here's a seemingly simple task that wortks fine under HPUX but seems
a royal pain under Win 95:
Namely I want to print some data, issue a form feed and then print
some more data.
Under HPUX I simple use a "to Print" object and
write text a
write text inttochar(12)
write text b
and it works great (12 is ascii decimal code for form feed)
On my WIN95 PC this doesn;t work and the reason is alluded to in
the "help" system: namely that "control characters" on the PC cannot be
embedded in a print job. Sounds like a limitation of the print drivers
rather than VEE per se.
The suggested alternative is to use a _to file_ pointed at the
printer port (LPT1 or whatnot) which seems klunky at best.
Is there perhaps a better way of doing this?
thanks for any hints
Stan Bischof
stanb@sr.hp.com