We have a problem with rlist reports not completing when sent to the printer. On long (100 - 200 pages or more) the output stops in the middle of the last page or the second to the last page. I have corrected the problems on few reports by removing a column or changing the order. Problem does not always happen but when it does it on a specific report, it will stop mid line and continue to do so. Any ideas?

Jim

Could be a timeout issue or perhaps try changing to print direct the the printer without using any spoolers (Win98 printer properties).

If on a network try connecting locally to see where the problem lies.

Tony

Recently upgraded to a USB printer. I have tried several things but it (DOS, or whatever) doesn't recognize the path, which is

USB/DeskJet 895C/SG8932W0GPGP.

Presently, I am PDisking reports to a file, and using WordPad, or Notepad to print.

This is cumbersome. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Dean Todd

Way back, over 10 years agao, when we started using revg on a network, we decided to shy away from printing reports directly to the printer because of time out issues. So we encouraged and wrote our reports (or TCL batch files torun reports) to pdisk output to a file.

The problem is how to get the file to printer easily. even now we have been using a hold over from the DOS world - a directory/file program called LIST.

The nice thing about it is that your can pass it a file name and LIST opens it into its viewer. That way the user can see if it is correct before printing - then a CTL P sends it out to the printer. for one client we configured a special explorer ICON to open onto his reports subdirectory under AREV and configured the explorer to use list to open files of RPT extension. Now he just finds the file to print double clicks and if OK CTL P to send it out to the printer.

Advantages over printing to directly to printer:

1. no timeout issues

2. User can see if report is OK before wasting a lot of paper.

Disadvantages

1. report has to finish completely before being able to view or print it

Advantages of using LIST over Notepad

1. List is not limited to 64 k. It has a 16MB limitation!

2. Very small program so very fast to load and execute.

3. passes all printer escape/control characters correctly.

hope sthis helps

ed

do to the nature of the beast, any report longer than 50 pages, I

PDISK and print from DOS or reformat and print in a worprocessor.

That way you avoid timeout, printer, paper and memory errors.

it has been very sucessful

i3.consulting.com

try removing the space in the path "USB/DeskJet 895C/SG8932W0GPGP"

or ut an underscore inbetween DeskJet and 895C…also try to limit 8 char per path like \\USB\DJet995C\SG8932W0

see if that works

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