| Author | Message | ||
     Jvarga77  |
Hey Everybody. I've been lurking around this board for a while, but haven't really posted since I don't have my XB9SX yet. Anyway, I'm hoping some of you IT guys may be able to give me a hand with a problem I'm having in my home office. I'm running an old FoxBASE+ program in Windows 2000 Professional. When attempting to print a single page to my HP Laserjet 3330, the printer prints half on one page and the other half on a second page. Prior to this, I was running the program on Win 98 and using HP LaserJet 4 Plus as the driver and had no problems. If any of you can give me any advice, I would appreciate it greatly. I also want to say that this is the most amazing group of people that I've ever seen on an internet board. Thanks, James | ||
| Josh_  |
FoxBASE+? Damn talk about old. That was out-dated when I was doing FoxPro coding in 1991. Does it split the print out exactly in half? Horizontal or vertical? | ||
| Jvarga77 |
definitely ancient. it was written around 1988 and just updated periodically. still seems to be the best thing we can find for our business, though. it splits it horizontally about a third of the way down the page. I'm going to print a multiple page one and see how that splits. | ||
| Midknyte |
Check your mail. Sending you a PM. | ||
| Josh_ |
midknyte, don't wuss out! post troubleshooting here! Hmm, I still have my 5.25" diskettes to install the Windows version of FoxPro 2.5 which includes a migration utility. Course it's to migrate it to Win3.1  | ||
| Jvarga77 |
thanks midknyte. Josh- I work with my father and by the time I started, he was already running 98 and we had no way to upgrade to a new version. At least none that I could find, anyway. | ||
| Steve_mackay  |
isn't there some tools in MS access to convert FoxPro files to Access? So you could convert from FoxBase to FoxPro, and then to Access  | ||
| Midknyte |
Not wussin out - I PM'd contact information for someone to call (which doesn't belong in this thread). | ||
| Josh_ |
The main issue is recreating all the windows, menus and other graphics. Even so you'd need to go FoxBASE+ -> FoxPro -> Access (VB) and in my case would have been less work to rewrite in VB/Access. That said, there's probably a way for Win2k to properly interpret the DOS print job correctly. There may even be 3rd party tools to help. Can you compare to a pre-2k print job? Is the output shrunk or the same size? Can you edit the printer configuration in FoxBase and tell it you're printing on legal? Or otherwise increase the size of the page? And you are using the print tools not print screen? | ||
| Jvarga77 |
our biggest concern is losing 17 years worth of information if I can't get the conversions to work correctly. as far as I can tell, the output is the same size. I have no idea how to change the configuration in FoxBase either. as far as the print screen vs. print tools, all I know is that I go to a clients file and choose to print the simple interest matrix for that client. BTW, thank you guys for helping me out. I'm more impressed by the character of the members of this board every day. | ||
| Jvarga77 |
midknyte- I'll be making that call tomorrow. thanks, again | ||
| Midknyte |
If you're just trying to print from a DOS program in XP, go to MSKB Article 31449 for info on the Net Use command. Note on using it - make a batch file that cancels the previous redirection and reassigns it on each launch. It's supposed to be persistent if you read the article, but as you can imagine, it doesn't come out in the wash (you'll have the user up & running and then 3 weeks later when the go to use it again it won't work and you won't know why... - see above) None of this applies to a formatting issue I think you are having, but for those who just need to print period from a DOS app, here you go... | ||
| Josh_ |
Worst case is you drop $100 at a used computer store and run a dedicated DOS PC next to your regular one. Get a KVM and have at it. (no printer switch needed as the Win2k system can use USB while the older DOS uses the parallel port) Or grab VMWare Workstation and run a true DOS environment on your system. But we can probably fix it. Can you try it on a different PC? Are you running an Microsoft or HP driver for the printer? Is this the same printer that worked under 98? | ||
| Josh_ |
I can't find a knowledgebase article 31449? I also haven't seen him reference a network or device capturing if that is what the article references. | ||
| Josh_ |
hmmm http://www.dosprn.com/ | ||
| Jvarga77 |
midknyte-I think that's going beyond my computer skills. I'll take a look at that Article you mentioned though. Josh-How we're setup here, I can only print off of the one PC. In any case, I run 2k as well. I'm running off of the HP driver. It is the same printer that worked under 98, though with 98 I had to load an HP Laserjet 4 driver for it to work correctly. tried that this time and no go... | ||
| Josh_ |
Try the dosprn utility, it's shareware so you only pay if it works. | ||
| Smokedaddy  |
My 2 cents, I'd try installing Microsoft Virtual PC and give it a shot. You can try it for 30 days (or something like that). Plus MS has a VPC forum too ... maybe they'll lend you and hand. I run a butt-load of my old DOS applications, even Turbo C. Oh, no I won't help you install VPC. <grin> -SD: | ||
| Court |
I have an old Gateway Pentium 90 that has Win98 and the HP 4 Laser drivers on it if you need it. I haven't used it in years. I may also have a set of the diskettes for the HP printers, I'll look. I'm near you and if you need the computer, you are welcome to it. Court | ||
| Jvarga77 |
I'd just wanted to let you know that I resolved this issue by calling HP, which I should have done in the first place, but I wanted to avoid spending 45 minutes on the phone with a tech. In any case, for those of you interested, I downloaded a Post Script driver for my printer and it worked. Such a simple solution that I feel like an idiot. Thank you all for your generous help with my problem and Court, thanks for the offer of a computer. If any of you are at the Motorcycle show at the Javits center on Saturday, maybe I'll run into you. I think I'm going to go to my local dealership and pick up a buell shirt or hat or both so I can represent at the show. (Even though I don't yet own a Buell)  |
