RE: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Kraus
>Don't put it in a directory whose path has spaces in it. Just put it in c:\windows or c:\winnt or something >:-) >Also, have you set up the .pl extension correctly? If so and it still doesn't work, try calling perl >>.explicitly on the .pl file with a full path to the perl executable. Ok new erro

RE: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Kraus
>How does the system store the data? If they have it in a MS Access >(.mdb), dBase or FoxBase (.dbf) or Paradox (.db) it might be quicker >to access the data directly via DBI+DBD::ODBC or DBI+DBD::XBase and >generate the report yourself in whatever format you need. >Been there, done that. Some

RE: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Bakken, Luke
> Almost forgot this is plain text data. > > >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/ > >Use redmon to set up a re-direct port. Redirect to a perl > program that > >opens a file for append and appends >the print data to it. If you're > opening the data in MS Word (I can't tell from your description

RE: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Kraus
Almost forgot this is plain text data. >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/ >Use redmon to set up a re-direct port. Redirect to a perl program that >opens a file for append and appends >the print data to it. If you're opening the data in MS Word (I can't tell from your description if you >are)

RE: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Kraus
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/ >Use redmon to set up a re-direct port. Redirect to a perl program that opens a file for append and appends >the print data to it. If you're opening the data in MS Word (I can't tell from your description if you >are) you can use OLE to automate printing in Wo

Re: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ok I am in a crunch situation. I have to gather a report from a credit > card system. The system is archaic and runs on windows. On this > software I have to go in for each day since January and print a report > ( you can not do this as a batch :( gr som

Re: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Paul Kraus wrote: Ok I am in a crunch situation. I have to gather a report from a credit card system. The system is archaic and runs on windows. On this software I have to go in for each day since January and print a report ( you can not do this as a batch :( gr some programmer should be shot,

RE: Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Bakken, Luke
> Ok I am in a crunch situation. I have to gather a report from > a credit card system. The system is archaic and runs on > windows. On this software I have to go in for each day since > January and print a report ( you can not do this as a batch > :( gr some programmer should be shot, twic

Help - In crunch Situation Print to file append Windows or Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Kraus
Ok I am in a crunch situation. I have to gather a report from a credit card system. The system is archaic and runs on windows. On this software I have to go in for each day since January and print a report ( you can not do this as a batch :( gr some programmer should be shot, twice). I want to