[REBOL] Re: Printing with Rebol on Windows network
From: louisaturk:coxinet at: 21-Aug-2002 8:33
Andrew,
At 09:19 AM 8/21/2002 +1200, you wrote:
>Printing with Rebol on Windows network
>
>I've been exploring how to print over a Windows 2000 network, and have
>just managed to get it work. Here's an example of printing to a local
>printer (printer attached directly to computer running Rebol):
>
> write/binary %//prn read/binary %Test.txt
>
>Note the two "//" for the local printer, and the "magic" value of "prn"
>("lpt1" and others are magical).
Thanks! Simple enough. I've just tested this on my win2k machine, and it
works for me too (with a few problems).
>And here's an example of printing to a network printer:
>
> write/binary %/Media/Corridor read/binary %Test.txt
>
>For the second example, your file name will obviously differ. The best way
>I've found so far for determining the file name of the network printer is
>to use the Windows Explorer program, browse into "My Network Places",
>"Entire Network", "Microsoft Windows Network", then work group, and then
>computer. There should be one or more printer icons showing. Click on one,
>and in the description vertical bar is the file name. For our network,
>that comes up with:
> \\Media\Corridor
>
>For Rebol, that changes to the file! value:
> %/Media/Corridor
>
>CAUTION: It's best to use a test file that consists of two or more pages
>of text. I discovered that my local printer (Canon BJC-255) would ignore
>anything less than a page of text and do nothing!
Same experience here.
>Note that Windows printers require CR and LF to be sent for the end of
>line; newline. If you must print directly from Rebol, you'll need to
>replace/all of the newline values in your text with these values.
How are you doing this?
>Andrew Martin
>Posting from School/Work.
Please post anything else you learn about this.
Louis
