Create null SAMBA printer

Gus Wirth gwirth at sciti.com
Thu Oct 14 08:44:08 PDT 2004


At 08:26 10/14/2004 -0700, Jon Wahlmann wrote:
>Alan wrote:
>
>> Jon Wahlmann wrote:
>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> Uh, instead, how about setting up a "print to PDF" printer?  Not sure 
>>> about a "/dev/null" printer...
>>>
>>> -Jon
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You can create a "print to text" printer directly in Windows. I'm not 
>> sure it has .pdf built in.
>
>Yup.  Good point.  Then again, my preference based on his description of 
>usage would be to send it to a PDF writer.  That way formatting is 
>preserved so any kinks in his report generation can be worked out 
>before.  Printing to text would just give you raw text with not much 
>formatting.

I'm not testing the reports. The reports are just a byproduct of testing
the programs. I'm actually testing the concurrancy of the database access
looking for deadlocks and poor performance.

Gus



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