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- From: jaegerwl@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu (Bill Jaeger)
- Subject: Re: Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.??
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- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:22:23 GMT
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- >hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
- >> For all you MSDOS wizards out there. Maybe a stupid question.
- >> I have an application that prints out data from a very old DB system.
- >> I need to get the output of a list from the database in a flat file.
- >> (THe database is very old, and i have no DB access routines)
- >>
- >> I can print pre-made lists. But they always go to the printer.
- >> Is there aneasy way for me to intercept the stuff going to the printer
- >> and route it to go to a file.
- >>
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- I don't know if it'll work for you, but I've had reasonable success with
- a program called VPRINT. It does just what you want - it redirects printer
- output to a file.
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- You can find VPRINT at WUarchive (wuarchive.wustl.edu) in the
- /mirrors/msdos/geoworks directory, I believe.
-
- Hope this info helps!
-
- -Bill
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- -Bill Jaeger
- jaegerwl@logic.camp.clarkson.edu Clarkson University, Potsdam New York
- jaegerwl@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu WCKN Television, Potsdam New York
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- "Only by attempting the absurd can we achieve the impossible"
- - Pyro to The Illuminator, 1990
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- -Bill Jaeger
- jaegerwl@logic.camp.clarkson.edu Clarkson University, Potsdam New York
- jaegerwl@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu WCKN Television, Potsdam New York
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