I have been using PDISK in AREV to send print jobs to an ascii file, and want to do the same thing in OpenInsight.

I cant find a command to do this.

Could somebody please advise me if there is a way of sending print jobs to an ascii file in OpenInsight.

Paul,

Printing to a file in Windows (i.e. OpenInsight) is different than with DOS (AREV).

For starters, if the type of printing is any kind of report or form printing using the Windows print engine then your file will contain printer codes (based on whatever printer was the default at the time) as well as the text. Therefore, this file cannot be sent to just any other printer for output nor can it be easily examined for content. If this is what you want then you can go into the printer configuration and change the port to FILE. Then you will be prompted for a file name every time you print.

If your goal is to capture simple output (text only) then you could select the Generic / Text Only print driver and follow the same process, or you will have to write your own procedure for writing text to a file (OSWRITE/OSBWRITE).

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Paul-

If you have a list statement that works in Arev, use the following subroutine form OI.

Call OR_Prtf(Report_builder_report, List_Statement, Dos_Path_File)

The Report builder report and list statement are mutually exclusive.

BTW - we cover this in the Intro to OpenInsight course at RTI's headquarters

Hope it helps-

Mike

What is meant by "Report builder report?" If you just have a List statement, what goes in the first argument?

Thankyou both Don and Mike for your help.

I am looking into both solutions.

I would also like to evaluate the OIPi, but don't know the site address, can anyone help.

http://www.pacifier.com/~splaver

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