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Article #486Re: Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.??
From: Malcolm Sainsbury
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:09
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:09
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In article <1992Sep10.023143.1711@cbnewse.cb.att.com> hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
>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.
>Is there aneasy way for me to intercept the stuff going to the printer
>and route it to go to a file.
Try a program on SIMTEL (VPRNT301.ARC) in the msdos.printer directory.
Regards,
Malcolm
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!hippo!eagle.ru.ac.za!msains From: msains@ibis.ru.ac.za (Malcolm Sainsbury) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.?? Message-ID: <msains.20.716396999@ibis.ru.ac.za> Date: 13 Sep 92 15:09:59 GMT Article-I.D.: ibis.msains.20.716396999 References: <1992Sep10.023143.1711@cbnewse.cb.att.com> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za Organization: BIS Department, Rhodes University Lines: 15