Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.??

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2 total messages Started by hank janssen Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:31

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Author: hank janssen
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:31

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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.

The program directly prints to the printer port.

Any ideas.????

All help is very much apreciated.!

Hank Janssen.

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Re: Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.??

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Author: Malcolm Sainsbury
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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