// creates disk file Kyocera FS-1000 (KPDL-2)" // before it was Kyocera FS-1000 (KPDL-2).prn" SET PRINTER TO ( Printername )
This won't work either way, it's Windows printer name.
// creates disk file 'IP_10.0.40.30' // before it was 'IP_10.0.40.30.prn' SET PRINTER TO ( Portname )
This also won't work, because it's a printer port name not a printer _share name_. [ I'm not sure what hbwin printing is capable of and which terminology it uses, sorry. ]
Does it implies that Harbour either prints to a "file" ( disk file ) or any standard port like 'LPT1:~LPT4: COM1:~COM4' ?
No. You can open lots more than just disk files and LPT/COM using FOPEN() (thus SET PRINTER), most importantly a printer share name which usually looks like this: \\server\hp4600 \\192.168.3.100\myprinter On other platforms you can similarly use real and virtual port names, but probably someone more familiar with these other systems could tell you more.
It will be heartening to see SET PRINTER TO ( cPrinterNameOrPort ) based on the OS in use.
Notice what you want is line/direct printing. Windows printers are not line printers, but GDI ones. Not all Windows printer support direct printing, so it would be totally misleading for Harbour core to suggest that this could reliably work. [ Unless Harbour would offer a total HP PCL, IBM PPDS or ESP/P[2] emulation on these ports and convert them to graphics and route them to the platform dependent "GDI" printer. But that's very much off topic for Harbour, even if it would be a cool feature. ] So, line (or raw, or direct) printing and graphic printing are two different things, Harbour supports the former, latter is - like GUI - very much platform dependent, and Harbour support for Windows is implemented in hbwin lib.
Any ideas how can I direct SET PRINTER TO ... to behave as in xHarbour as the basic code is implemented in set.c itself.
See above, I don't think we should implement this the xhb way, as it can create all sorts of problems, like breaking compatibility in the first place. What if f.e. if user wants to print to a file named "hello", but he happens to have a Windows printer named "hello"? See Francesco's recent mail, just get the list of Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
