RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest V3 #632

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Kevin Corcoran wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Apparently there is a limit of 8 printer files allowed in a RPG program. I

> have a program that needs to use 9 (possibly more). Any ideas on how to 
> achieve this (other than duplicating and splitting the process into 2 
> programs).

8 is indeed the limit.  This sounds like a great place for a printer
client/service program.  You set up a server that runs in batch and listens
to a data queue.  Your client (the program with all the print files) sends a
request to the server detailing what printer to print on and what to print.
Obviously there is more to it than that, but you didn't want to break THIS
program up...

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
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 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle     


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