What printers are available to your program?

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The APRINTERS function allows you to enumerate all the printers to which your application can print.

?"Printer info"

ShowPrinters(0)

?"More printer info"

ShowPrinters(1)

PROCEDURE ShowPrinters(nMode)

      n=APRINTERS(aa,nMode)

      FOR i= 1 TO n

            ?i

            FOR j = 1 TO ALEN(aa,2)

                  ??"---",aa[i,j]

            ENDFOR

      ENDFOR

RETURN

Likewise, the ANETRESOURCES function lets you learn what resources are available on the network (see WNetEnumResource), such as available network shares and network printers.

On my machine, this code

cMachine=""

n=ANETRESOURCES(aa,cMachine,1)

FOR i= 1 TO n

      ?i,aa[i]

ENDFOR

Produces this output

         1 Microsoft Terminal Services

         2 Microsoft Windows Network

         3 Web Client Network

Change the machine name to a machine on your network.