At the hospital where I work, I have 3 apps on one machine. They run on P10
runtime (written in P10) and have been running well without issues for years
(they don't run simultaneously).

Recently I was asked to put them on 5 more machines. I did so. They were
installed exactly the same way on all 5 machines. They ran beautifully on
three of the machines. On two of the machines, I received Unexpected GPV
errors when printing the reports which is the purpose of the programs.

The Hospital uses Windows 2000 and a Novel network. I ran the programs on
the C:\ drive (rather than network drive). They print to a network printer.
I am not sure I understand why some get the errors and others don't.

I don't know where to start and I am sure the IT folks won't have a clue
about Paradox.

Craig

Craig,

Make sure the printer names are less than 30 characters long.

HTH,
Jim Moseley

Craig,

Could this be the infamous printer-name error? If the printer name is
longer than 31 characters, Paradox will choke. You must use short(er)
printer names.

Zal

On 23-10-2007 22:03 Craig wrote the following email:

I appreciate the help and will look into it. Two of the computers print to
the same printer, one works and one does not.
Since it is on runtime, I'll have to write code to tell me the printer name
and how many characters.

Is there a work around?

Craig

"Zal Dabhoiwala" <dabhoiwala (AT) no (DOT) spam.com> wrote

I think the issue is ANY printer, not just the one being used.

Particularly if you enumprinters to switch printers.

My memory could be corrupted, however.


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Tony McGuire

My assumption is that the printer name doesn't even need to be used for this
to happen.
In my Code I just print to the default printer.
Rinfo.name = ":alias:reportname.rsl"
R.print(Rinfo)
I don't actually identify the printer in my code
Should that make any difference?
I am assuming no workaround for this?
There is no way I can change the printer name.
The printers usually have names such as WHS5P0003
Craig



"Tony McGuire" <png.paradoxcommunity@com> wrote

You guys were correct! (As usual)
On one of the computers it said:
HP Laserjet 4050 Series PCL (Copy 2)
36 characters!
I renamed it without the "(copy 2)" (there were no other printers on
there) and it printed beautifully!!
The other one had an adobe printer as the default and I changed it and
it was fine.
Thanks.

Craig

Zal Dabhoiwala <dabhoiwala (AT) no (DOT) spam.com> wrote in news:471eb2e0$1
@pnews.thedbcommunity.com:

Does this affect only a printer one selects, or will Paradox choke if
another printer with a long name is available for enumeration? (I just want
to make sure any such "dangerous" printers won't be where my app can see
them.)

"Tony McGuire" <png.paradoxcommunity@com> wrote in news:471ec933$1
@pnews.thedbcommunity.com:

Ouch. Ignore my post from 10 seconds ago, I neglected to read to the end of
the thread.