jbanner@sol.uvic.ca (S. John Banner) (11/21/90)
Hello, I have a need to be able to run the standard Windows3 printer
drivers, but when the printer gets used, I need to be able to preceed
the file with a ``special'' printer initialization string. The specific
example here is that I have a couple of users who are connected to an
intelegent printer sharing box, which has a couple of printers connected
to it. You select the printer you want to use by sending the string
``$PRINTERx'' where x is the number of the printer you want to use. The
maker of the box supplies a nice little TSR that you can popup, and
sends the string to the printer, and away you go. Unfortunately, this
doesn't work real well in Windows3. There are work arounds, but what
we would like to be able to do (we have several of these boxes on campus
and the number of Windows users is growing, so we want a ``nice''
solution), is set things up so that when the user goes into the print
manager, and selects his HPII, the ``$PRINTER1'' gets sent, when he
selects the HP Plotter, ``$PRINTER2'' gets sent, and so on for all
of the printers; and all transparent to the users. Does anyone have
any suggestions???
Thanks much,
S. John Banner
jbanner@sol.uvic.ca
jbanner@uvvm.bitnet (Please avoid this address if possible)
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