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Printer Output is Written to Disk

By default, Visual COBOL writes all output intended for a printer to disk.

To send output to a physical printer, you must map the filename using the dd_LPT1 environment variable or, if your system supports the lp printer spooler, you should use:

dd_LPT1=">lp";export dd_LPT1

With the DIALECT"RM" directive, the ASSIGN-PRINTER"" directive is set. In this case, a file assigned to a printer without a file-name in the ASSIGN clause is given a file-name that matches the file-name specified in the SELECT clause. Thus, to redirect the output file, set an environment variable dd_file-name to the desired destination.