NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Sending Jobs to Network Printers Using CAPTURE and NPRINT
Using CAPTURE
Printing Screen Displays
To print information displayed on your screen, follow these steps.
Procedure
1 Before you access the screen you want to print, type
CAPTURE P=printername TI=number LPT1
You can include any of the CAPTURE options except SHow.
2 Access the screen you want to print.
3 Press <Shift><Print Screen>.
NOTE: DOS redirects print jobs to the port. If no printer is attached or port captured, your
machine may hang. To prevent this, include the following line in the NET.CFG file
on your workstation boot diskette:
LOCAL PRINTERS = 0
Saving Data from Several Applications or Files to a Single File
Suppose you want to move in and out of applications or files, saving data
from each, and store all the data in one file called TEST on a network drive.
Use the “Create” (CR) and the “No autoendcap” (NA) options. Specifying
“No autoendcap” allows you to move in and out of applications or files
without prematurely closing the file you are creating.
To save data to a file to your current directory, type
CAPTURE CR=TEST NA TI=0
To save data to a file called TEST that is located in the REPORTS directory,
type
CAPTURE CR=COUNT_SYS:SALES\REPORTS\TEST NA TI=0
To end the capture, type
CAPTURE EC