Reports and .PRN files

[Carter Hicks]

I've had Access print a report to a file, thus creating
a .PRN file.

However, I have found no successful way to print the
resulting .PRN file.

I've tried copying the filename to Lpt1: from the DOS
command line, which apparently gets processed without any
errors, but nothing prints.

I use Windows XP, and I suppose this could either be a
Windows XP bug processing .PRN files or a bug in Access
in which the .PRN files are not being generated correctly.

Surely this is a very common thing, but I haven't found
an obvious answer.

Thanks,
Carter Hicks

 

[SA]

Carter: Make sure that you use the binary switch when you copy the file in
the dos box as in:

C:> Copy C:\~report1.prn LPT1: /b