Thanks Kyle!! That worked!!!

N.T.GOPALAKRISHNAN
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Kyle Burns
  To: professional vb
  Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 2:59 AM
  Subject: [pro_vb] RE: Print from DOS based programs


  PRN is not the Windows default printer.  It's probably LPT1.  Just a
  suggestion, but could you not get the network path of the desired 
printer,
  issue "NET USE LPT2 \\servername\printername", and then have the batch 
file
  read "COPY %1 LPT2"?

  
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  Kyle M. Burns, MCSD
  ECommerce Technology Manager
  Centra Credit Union
  kburns@c...


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Gopalakrishnan [mailto:ntg@s...]
  Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:41 AM
  To: professional vb
  Subject: [pro_vb] Print from DOS based programs


  hi everybody,

      I added a printer (HP LaserJet 4000 PCL 5e) to my system (which is 
a
  network printer) and I said YES to "Print from MS-DOS based Programs", 

  asked in the wizard.

      I then wrote a batch file, called "printer.bat", which has the
  following one line code:

      TYPE %1 > PRN

      where %1 will be the file to be printed.

  And in my VB program, I use the following code:

  ' --- Code Starts Here... ---
  Dim sDeviceName as String
  CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter

   ' I select the HP LaserJet 4000 PCL 5e printer said above
  sDeviceName =3D Printer.DeviceNameMsgBox sDeviceName

   ' Making HP LaserJet 4000 PCL 5e as default printer so that when 
prints
  thro the Dos mode, it directs it to that printer.
  SetDefaultPrinter sDeviceName       

  'Executing the batch file through the Shell command
  Shell "c:\windows\desktop\printer.bat 
c:\windows\desktop\productlink.txt",
  vbNormalFocus

  '---- End of the Code ---

  I thought that the above command will execute the batch file, which in 
turn
  print to the changed Default Printer (ie the HP LaserJet 4000 PCL 5e). 
But
  it didn't happend like that and it always point to my local printer. 
WHY?

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thanks,

  N.T.GOPALAKRISHNAN