I need help.

I would like to send report to two diferent devices.
1'st device is on printer
2'nd device is on file

Do you have any sugestion???

Thanks.

if I use spool.open() the device open's but I dont know how to sent the data to the report ???

Thanks

I would like to manipulate with device's in the device script

extern domain tcmcs.str15 spool.file fixed
extern domain tcmcs.str15 spool.printer fixed


spool.file = "ASCIF"
spool.printer = "PR100"

brp_id1 = brp.open.language( "rtccom0401010003", spool.device, 1 )

brp_id2 = brp.open.language( "rtccom0401010003", spool.device, 1 )


Regards,

Kozure

But I'm not programing in report script but in device script ???

After the 1'st device creates the file I need the 2'nd device to start to print report on printer.

After device script creates file = OK I would like to open the spool = OK, but no data is printed ???

I would like to know what is a push comand to send report to spool.device

Not sure what you are doing, but ...


brp.ready -> sends the data to the opened spool.device.

But this is programmed in the report script.

Can you please explain what you mean with device script.

Regards,

Kozure

Device script is 4gl script for programing device's.

I would like to print a document from baan-sesion to the 2 difrent device's at the same time. One is on PDF.file and the other is to push the data to the printer. I have already made a device for meke a .PDF file.
This device have a device script in wich after the .PDF file is complete I would like to start automaitc new device for printing the document through the printer.

How does your device driver work? Typically when you trap a report with the device driver you have a tmp file to work with. In my case we convert it to ASCII, then manipulate the report. If I wanted to I could execute an lp command against the ASCII converted temporary file - we do UNIX printing. Of course you would have to make sure that the ascii version of the file would print correctly.

It is possible to do this without any baan code. I used a virtual printer Redmon http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/
and ghostscript http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ to do the PDF file.

The virtual printer is set to use postscript driver printer so it creates postscript file. The virtual printer then calls a batch file that sends the postscript file to ghostscript which creates a PDF file. Then sends the file onto a printer and in my case another program called Blat http://www.blat.net/194/ emails the pdf file.

Did you also use brp.ready twice?

Like:

...
brp_id1 = brp.open( "rtccom0401010003", "DEVICE 1", 1 )
brp_id2 = brp.open( "rtccom0401010003", "DEVICE 2", 1 )


select ...

selectdo
...
brp.ready(brp_id1)
brp.ready(brp_id2)
...
endselect

brp.close(brp_id1)
brp.close(brp_id2)
...

You can use brp.open.language also. But you cannot use spool.device as a variable (spool.device will allways contain the last printer). Insert the device name directly.

hth

Regards
Christof

OK I used shell comand
shell("qprt -Pemeco -c -Z! -dp -N1 "&str$(tmp.file),0)

But I still have a problem. Now my problem is format of report???

So I used:
shell("filter6.1 -p ibm_4226 -c 2 -f 1 -t 999999 -i "&str$(tmp.file)&" -o $BSE/tmp/tmpoutputfile -l 72 -m 1 -n 0 -L ISO-8859-1",0)


but still have problem with same character's like ž,š,č....

Any sugestion???

For my experience this is a codepage problem.

Are you sure that ISO 8859-1 is the correct codepage for you? You wrote you are from slovenia. So I think ISO-8859-15 or ISO-8859-4 could be better. I didn't find the characters you are missing in ISO 8859-1 but in 8859-15.

Look at wikipedia for codepages.

hth

Regards
Christof