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RE: Installed Windows 10 now cannot print landscape to a Microline 321 Turbo 9 pin
by Dave Crozier 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

I got around the "multiple coloured copies" when we moved over to laser printer by printing a coloured band on the top of each copy identifying "customer copy", "our copy" and "carriers copy". It has worked really well and doesn't use up too much coloured ink supplies either! Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: 08 July 2016 21:57 To: ProFox Email List <profox(a)leafe.com> Subject: Re: Installed Windows 10 now cannot print landscape to a Microline 321 Turbo 9 pin At 13:10 2016-07-08, Stephen Russell <srussell705(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I guess you have to rethink printing in landscape on tractor feed systems. >The stock is moving in portrait style unless you have to bizarre forms. > >Did many years of unique car paper and the microline printer was always >the BEST. We wanted it fast so it was always straight text and you >controlled the font needed with escape codes. Never post an image to >print as a form. Those took way too long. I love my Microline printer. It is great for program listings. Graphics? Not so -- read as "very" -- good. Use the right tool for the job. I have an HP Envy 5540 for that. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko [excessive quoting removed by server]

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RE: xBASE Appending from a Cursor
by Dave Crozier 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Another way is to use a scan/endscan loop with scatter name <<oObject>> memo and then an associated gather name <<oObject>> memo after an append blank. That way only fields which exist in the gather table will be transferred and you can also modify the oObject properties (fields) if required before the gather. Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: 07 July 2016 19:16 To: ProFox Email List <profox(a)leafe.com> Subject: Re: xBASE Appending from a Cursor At 16:37 2016-07-06, Gianni Turri <giannit62(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:57:20 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <genew(a)telus.net> wrote: > > >Hello: > > > > I ran into some trouble writing an update program for my app. > >Having not done it for quite a while, I forgot how to xBASE append > >from a cursor. A simple > > append from thecursorname > >does not work. Instead, I finally remembered the, rather less-than-obvious > > append from (dbf("thecursorname")) > > > > Is there a better way? >your way in correct! > >And then there is the SQL way: > >insert into YourCursor ; > (Field1, Field2, Field3, FieldX) ; > select Field1, Field2, Field3, FieldX ; > from thecursorname > >or > >insert into YourCursor ; > select * ; > from thecursorname > >Make sure that the implicit and / or explicit fields lists do match. That is why I use the xBASE append: I do not have to bother with a column list. That is just duplicating table/cursor definitions and is prone to error (as you allude to). Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko [excessive quoting removed by server]

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Re: Installed Windows 10 now cannot print landscape to a Microline 321 Turbo 9 pin
by Gene Wirchenko 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

At 13:10 2016-07-08, Stephen Russell <srussell705(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I guess you have to rethink printing in landscape on tractor feed systems. >The stock is moving in portrait style unless you have to bizarre forms. > >Did many years of unique car paper and the microline printer was always the >BEST. We wanted it fast so it was always straight text and you controlled >the font needed with escape codes. Never post an image to print as a >form. Those took way too long. I love my Microline printer. It is great for program listings. Graphics? Not so -- read as "very" -- good. Use the right tool for the job. I have an HP Envy 5540 for that. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: Installed Windows 10 now cannot print landscape to a Microline 321 Turbo 9 pin
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

On 2016-07-08 15:36, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > At 10:42 2016-07-08, ProFox Email List <profox(a)leafe.com> wrote: >> On 2016-07-08 13:40, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com >> wrote: >>> On 2016-07-08 04:32, Alan Bourke wrote: >>>> Is now a good time to get them onto laser? >>> >>> I would imagine several folks HAVE to stay with pin-printers because >>> of their triplicate carbon paper for additional copies. > > I had a laser printer once. It died just after starting on its > second toner cartridge. > > I love continuous form paper. It is so nice to be able to read a > listing by flipping through it and have the pages stay together. I win my bets, Gene. I would have bet you'd prefer that. > >> Of course, they could abandon that paper stock and simply print >> multiple copies. > > And sort them out. It would be great fun if you are printing > many invoices per day. Custom invoice paper can have different > colours for each layer. ...which could be programmed to print by tray # with colors in each, but yes, I concur that triplicate in different colors with a pin-printer is an easy ONE-PASS-PRINTING solution...provided you have the right drivers to make it work.

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Installed Windows 10 now cannot print landscape to a Microline 321 Turbo 9 pin
by Wes Wilson 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Our customer installed Windows 10 now cannot print landscape to a Microline 321 Turbo 9 pin I am baffled. Any suggestions? Wes Wilson, President ERW Custom Programming, Inc. Crescent Lake Plaza 5459 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Waterford, MI 48327 (248) 683-4182 LinkedIn Profile www.erw.com weswilson(a)erw.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Rox Seibert
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Bill's mentioning the FoxWiki being offline for 4 days made me think of some yesteryear prominent Fox folks who seemed to have moved on (or at least seem to have fallen off the radar). One that came to my mind was Rox Seibert. Her website is no longer valid (just the other week is was a simple Hello or some one-liner like that, but is now for sale on godaddy). I sent her an email wishing her well to her email address from http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~RoxanneSeibert~B2B but that came back no good. And her http://www.dragboatalley.com/ website is no longer valid either. Anybody know what happened to her? I saw somewhere that she's no longer with eMedicine (or was it WebMD?).

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Re: xBASE Appending from a Cursor
by Gianni Turri 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:57:20 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <genew(a)telus.net> wrote: >Hello: > > I ran into some trouble writing an update program for my >app. Having not done it for quite a while, I forgot how to xBASE >append from a cursor. A simple > append from thecursorname >does not work. Instead, I finally remembered the, rather less-than-obvious > append from (dbf("thecursorname")) > > Is there a better way? > >Sincerely, > >Gene Wirchenko Hi Gene, your way in correct! And then there is the SQL way: insert into YourCursor ; (Field1, Field2, Field3, FieldX) ; select Field1, Field2, Field3, FieldX ; from thecursorname or insert into YourCursor ; select * ; from thecursorname Make sure that the implicit and / or explicit fields lists do match. -- Gianni

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updating 2 forms
by Sytze de Boer 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Friends In a new application I am developing, I have a Form with a Command button The Command button opens a 2nd form When my client enters data into this 2nd form, I need to show what is being typed in a Text box on the 1st form. Can that be done? -- Kind regards, Sytze de Boer --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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xBASE Appending from a Cursor
by Gene Wirchenko 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Hello: I ran into some trouble writing an update program for my app. Having not done it for quite a while, I forgot how to xBASE append from a cursor. A simple append from thecursorname does not work. Instead, I finally remembered the, rather less-than-obvious append from (dbf("thecursorname")) Is there a better way? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Do prompt when starting EXE
by Kent Belan 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Hello, I have an VFP 9 EXE that runs fine on mapped drive on the network from the main folder. They made a copy of the folder and a new mapped drive to the new folder but when we try to start the EXE we get a DO prompt. We can select the EXE at this point and the program will start. Very weird. Has anyone had this problem and know of a solution ? Thanks, Kent

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