On most PICK like systems you can use SP-ASSIGN ? to find out which
printer a port is currently assigned to.  Then you can capture that
information and use it for printer settings.  I have a specific
printer that I want to print in compressed mode for certain reports
and landscaped for others, but the SP-ASSIGN ? command doesn't work in
UNIX.

What is the equivalent to SP-ASSIGN ? command?  (Or is there a way to
set up the printer to always be compressed for one queue and
landscaped for another?)

Unless you get another good response, check out PrintWizard, which can
do what you ask:
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On May 7, 5:14 am, rockingred <willsteve2...@yahoo.ca> wrote:

Hi Rockingred,

Not to be picky (no pun intended), but on most PICK like systems you
can use SP-ASSIGN ? to find out which *print queue* a port is
currently assigned to.

Unidate does not have a generic Pick print spooler like you a used  to
using on the other generic Pick(R) databases you work on.

The SP-ASSIGN command on Unidata simply provides a  "Pick(R) -like
syntax to achieve SETPTR operations" according to the  Unidata
Commands Reference Manual.

In other words, it performs a SETPTR operation using SP-ASSIGN syntax
but, in Unidata, it does assign your port's output to a printer, not
to a print queue.

You can interrogate the current setting of any print unit assigned to
your port by issueing the SETPTR command followed by the print unit
number.  No number is interpreted at the default print unit number
zero.

SETPTR (without a number) will show you the print settings on print
unit zero.

SETPTR 1 will show you the print settings on print unit 1, etc.

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Let me know if you have any other questions.

Rgds,

Dave Taylor

Sysmark Information Systems, Inc.
Authorized IBM Business Partner

On May 8, 1:36 pm, Dave <da...@sysmarkinfo.com> wrote:

Thanks Dave, but what if I don't know which printer/printer queue the
port is currently assigned to?  Basically I want to find out which is
in use before using specific ESC codes.  So if port 10 is using
printer 0 it needs the ESC code set for the Lexmark printer.  If it's
using printer 1 it requires the ESC code set for the HP printer.

I'm assuming when SETPTR is used it actually assigns the printer to
the current port, which is not what I want to do in this instance.

Sincerely,
Marianne.