Does anyone know a simple way to output all printing from RBASIC code to a file instead of the LPT port? We are using ver 3.12.

Just a few moments after writing this, I found the PDISK command which does exactly what I want.

PDISK and PRINTER are the two commands you want to redirect your output to a file instead of a printer. For the PDISK line you'll need the path and file name with its extention. The path and file name can be hard coded or in a variable. Try something like this:

program code

PERFORM 'PDISK C:\OUTPUT.TXT'

PRINTER ON

program code

PRINTER OFF

PERFORM 'PDISK PRN'

You'll use PRINT statements to get your data to the file. If at any time you need to print something out to the screen using a PRINT statement you can do:

PRINTER OFF

PRINT statement to go to the screen

PRINTER ON

But I would suggest that you use a message statement if at all possible. It's just simpler.

I hope this helps.

Michael Slack

Apart from PDISK, there have been occasions where I have used a PC magazine utility called prn2file.com and also Novell's capture command - these too do what you require, and can be useful to trap printer output from EXE's called by AREV.

Steve

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