Printer selection using AccuTerm

Greetings,

I've for a slight problem. I need to drive 4 printers from one computer - on the other side of a VPN, so they cannot be defined on anything local to Pick (d3/nt). I want to use AccuTerm scripting to select one of four printers for the subsequent printout to be printed on.

I've got it halfway working by the simple expedient of the single line script as follows:

EQU ESC TO CHAR(27), STX TO CHAR(2), CR TO CHAR(13), EM TO CHAR(25)
EQU AM TO CHAR(254), VM TO CHAR(253), SVM TO CHAR(252)
!
!
   SCRIPT = \ActiveSession.PrinterName = "Epson Stylus C84 SERIES"\ : EM
   CRT ESC : STX : 'P' : SCRIPT : CR :
   !

and then I can print on that printer. When I try to print on two printers from within the same basic program, the printout only shows up on one. Is there some way to 'close' the printer before selecting the printer for the next printout?

I tried the ActiveSession.PrinterClose, but it tells me I don'thave enough arguments.

I'm using AccuTerm 2K2 (5.0d {5.0.52})

Thanks,

Larry Hazel

Pete,

Thanks for the sample program. I'll be able to give it a try on Thursday when I'm back at the clients. There is one difference that I note from what I did and what you did.

I probably will not be able to turn the slave printer on and off from within the program. Their system demands that printers be assigned in a strange manner by the executing PROC. So, we'll be assigning these computers the "AS" spooler command, as in SP-ASSIGN AS. That way D3 controls where the item is printed. Not the physical device on the local computer, but the manner in which is is spooled.

I'll let you know tomorrow if it works under the conditions I mentioned above.

Thanks,

Larry Hazel

Is there a way to pull a list of available printers, as if you went into tools/printers/slave printers to choose, so you could then present the list to the user for him to choose?