Re: Legecy fax usage
From: Loganatr [MSFT] (loganatr_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:13 +0530
Did you install fax by adding the shared fax printer from win2003 server. I
mean are you able to print to the shared fax printer and able to fax?
Can you send the code snippet which changes the default fax printer and
prints to the fax, so that we take a look into that.
-- Loganatr [MSFT] Microsoft Printing, Imaging and Fax Team This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please do not send email directly to this alias. This alias is for newsgroup purposes only.' "rykk" <News@WIM.ca> wrote in message news:cfZ3d.466869$M95.104182@pd7tw1no... >I realize this is not the correct newsgroup but all the others seem to be > full of porn. > > > > I have a very large legacy application (written in VB3 > > currently running under WIN98) that I am attempting to get to print to the > shared fax on WIN2003 server. The shared fax has been locally set up as > print device. Printing from any other windows product operates correctly. > I.E. the fax window opens and the printed material appears in the fax. > > > > In the past the application captured the current default printer, switched > the default printer to the fax printer, printed the fax and then switched > back to the original printer. This worked when the fax application was > installed on the local machine. > > > > After changing the local fax to the shared fax printing the application is > not able to print to the fax. When the application attempts to print to > the > shared fax the fax window does not open at all. > > > > I am confused why anything printing to the fax device does not > function in the same manner. > > > > I realize I am asking a question that seems not worth dealing with. The > obvious answer is to upgrade the legacy application. > > > > However the company involved is very small and cannot afford the costs > involved. The legacy application has evolved over 10 years, is very large, > meets all the clients needs, relies heavily on database and development > tools that are not available in current development environments, and the > company requires the application to operate. > > > > I need to determine a way to accomplish this. > > > > For example printing to a .prn file and then shelling an application that > transfers the .prn file to the fax or some manner of loading the shared > fax > application with a .prn file as input? > > > > > -- > rykk > > C. Richard Jamieson > WIM Consulting > Sales@WIM.ca > Phone (780) 464-2214 > Cell (780) 992-2221 > Fax (780) 467-2583 > >
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