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Printing To USB Printers From FoxPro 2
Printing To USB Printers From FoxPro 2
Printing To USB Printers From FoxPro 2
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There are several solutions, depending on your configuration.
1. If you are using a shared printer on another computer, you shouldn't have a
problem. Share it from the other computer, and point to it from the FoxPro 2.6
computer.
2. To print to a USB printer on the FoxPro 2.6 computer. On Windows XP and
2000, you can share the printer, then use a NET USE command to redirect LPT1
to the shared printer. This is like the Novell capture sequences.
Install the printer and share it. You may need to set permissions to allow
Authenticated Users to use the printer.
Add NET USE LPT1: \\CRAIG\USBPRINTER to the logon script for the
user's profile.
For help on logon scripts, look up "To assign a logon script to a profile" in
XP Help.
3. To print to a USB printer on the FoxPro 2.6 computer. On Windows XP, you
can use printer pooling.
Good luck!