Progress
Results User’s Guide
for UNIX


Printer Setup

Use the Printer Setup option to define output devices, such as TERMINAL, FILE, and PRINTER. You also use it to add new printer definitions. This section describes the menu choices listed in the Printer Setup option.

Add New Output Device.

Use this to define a new output device. When you choose it, it prompts you for this information:

Desc for listing—This is the prompt to select an output device. This is for display only.

Device name—This is the logical system name of the output device. For example, the usual default system printer name for Windows is prn or lpt1 and UNIX is lp or lpr. If you are using the default printer, you enter those names here. If you are defining a terminal device, type in a terminal type from your Progress PROTERMCAP file, or leave it blank to use your current terminal settings.

Maximum Width—The maximum number of characters that the output device can print horizontally. Use this option to print reports wider than 80 characters. Reports will wrap if you output them to devices that are not wide enough to show all their information.

Type—The type of output device, as selected from the Device Types list on the screen. You can enter one of the following:

CAUTION: PRINT must be run once before Progress is started to install the resident portion, since PRINT is part TSR and part command.
Choose Device to Edit

When you select this choice, a list of the currently defined output devices appears. After you select one of these, Results prompts you for the same information as in Add New Output Device field—the description, the logical name of the device, the width of the output in characters, and the device type as defined by the list on the screen. The existing values for the output device you selected appear as defaults.

General Device Characteristics

If you select this, Results prompts you for the same information as in Add New Output Device field—the description, the logical name of the device, the width of the output in characters, and the device type as defined by the list on the screen. For more information, see the "Add New Output Device." section in this chapter.

Control Sequences

Use this option to set printer control sequences. The Initialization field enables you to send a set of control sequences to the output device ahead of your information. Thus, you can control the format of your document. For example, you can change your document position from portrait to landscape, set margins, and add header and footer space. See your printer documentation to determine the control sequences you can use. The remainder of the fields in this option: Normal Print, Compressed, Bold ON, and Bold OFF, are reserved for future versions of Results.

Printer Permissions

Select Printer Permissions after you use Add New Output Device or Choose Device To Edit to select the output device for which you want to set permissions. You set permissions by creating an IDLIST as described in the "Security Options" section in this chapter.

Delete Current Device

Use this option to delete any of the previously defined output devices.


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