wine users - May 2010 - No printing - program in BPS Borland Pascal for Windows

Hello,

I am trying to use an accounting program specifically written for the management
of local churches in Belgium.

The original program was written in BPW Borland Pascal for Windows. When a print
command is given, absolutely nothing happens. When using the notepad under Wine,
printing is ok.

I am wondering if someone has met a similar problem. What could I do to print
the output of the program ?

Best regards to all of you
Charles

I am using :
Wine version: wine-1.0.1
Operating system UBUNTU 9.04
Printer HP920C - parrallel port
Desktop Gnome 2.26.1
The program can be freely dowloaded at
http://home.euphonynet.be/logiciel-fabrique/

chb22chb wrote:
> 
> Wine version: wine-1.0.1
> 
Upgrade Wine. That version is over a year and a half old. If that doesn't
solve the problem, post console output.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

Thanks.  I did upgrade to wine-1.1.42.
No change: nothing happens when I try to print and the console remains black =
no output at all.
For info the original program in BPW was written 13 years ago.
Best regards
Charles

chb22chb wrote:
> Thanks.  I did upgrade to wine-1.1.42.
> No change: nothing happens when I try to print and the console remains
black = no output at all.
> For info the original program in BPW was written 13 years ago.
>   
Can you run your program from the terminal and process output to a log 
file?  How to do this is in the Wine FAQ.

If the log file is lengthy, please post it to a site like pastebin.com 
and post the URL here.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

Thanks for the suggestion.

I did start the program with wine fabrique.exe &> log.txt  then tried to
print something and exited the program.  The log file is empty!

Did the same starting with winconsole cmd ,then starting the program, etc .. 
Once again the log file is empty.

Tried to debug with WINEDEBUG=+print,+printui wine fabrique &> debug.txt 
The debug.txt is empty.

Tried also 
WINEDEBUG=err+all wine fabrique &> errr.txt   ==> empty file
WINEDEBUG=warn+all wine fabrique &> warn.txt  ==> big file
WINEDEBUG=fixme+all wine fabrique &> fixme.txt  ==> empty file
WINEDEBUG=trace+all wine fabrique &> trace.txt  ==> mega-huge file

The warn.txt file is posted at
http://www.quickfilepost.com/download.do?get=a894e43c29652ce8458d32bfa2414690

The trace file is posted at
http://www.quickfilepost.com/download.do?get=d24e8d5698679010dc067dfe2fa0bcdc

What else can I do ?  Anyway, thank you just for paying attention.
Charles

"chb22chb" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> ...  I did upgrade to wine-1.1.42.
> No change: nothing happens when I try to print and the console
> remains black = no output at all.
Not a fix, but a possible workaround:  can you have the program
print to a disk file, and then use a native Linux command to send
the printfile to the printer?

Thank yoy for the idea but I do not see how I could try that.  When a click on
the "print" in the menu, absolutely nothing happens.
Charles

chb22chb wrote:
> When a click on the "print" in the menu, absolutely nothing
happens.
File a bug.