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- Changing Windows 95 and NT Default Printer
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- Create but Not Add Printer in WinNT
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- How To Add a Printer and Make it the Default Printer
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- How to Send Carriage Return - Formfeed
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- Print a Directory of PDF Files
- Print error 3383 Wait Parameter bad
- Print Function and 1932 WinExec Undefined Error
- Print Graphic UDF
- Print Spooling - A Trick via DOS in Win95
- Print Test Page
- Printer Change and 16 vs 32bit Apps Failing
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- Printer Command Line Options
- Printers while in DOS
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- Printing WIL Manuals
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- Problem With Color Syntax Printing To Canon i850 Printer
- Pull Down Printer List Box
- Remote Printer Install
- Remove Formfeed in Appended Files
- Seeing Persistent Network Printers
- Sending Control Sequences to a Printer
- Set Print Log Spooler Information Events
- Suppress WinNT print messages
- UDF to Delete a Printer Driver
- Using FileCopy to Print to a LPT Port or UNC
- Utility for Printing PRN Files
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Printers while in DOS
Keywords: change print printer DOS WinBatch
Question:
If a person wants to run a DOS program with WinBatch, and he has to change his three printers, what is the best way to do it? Right now he is using a Run command to change the printers. The actual program is LPRQ.EXE. He uses the command 6x. The first three Run's successfully delete the printers, but the other commands to add the new printers aren't really working. He ends up with 6 icons on the bottom of his screen!? Is there a command that he can use to concatenate his 6 little programs to change the printers into one script?Answer:
- I think he should use a RunWait function instead of a Run function to insure proper
sequencing of the operations.
- Either his default PIF file is not suitable for what he wants to do, or the PIF files
he does have are not correct. I suggest he make a PIF file, ensuring that
the ""CloseWindowOnExit"" box is checked. I think he is running the programs, and his
default PIF file leaves the DOS program on the screen, and they accumulate on the bottom.
- He could write a big DOS batch file that deleted and added his printers.
- If all he wants to do is send some special characters to the printer, he could try something like:
xx=FileOpen("LPT1","WRITE")
FileWrite(xx,"6x")
FileClose(xx)
Article ID: W13698
Filename: Printers while in DOS .txt
File Created: 1999:04:15:16:55:46
Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:55:46