Choosing a port to print

Normally, you specify a name of printer to open when start printing. The
printer is a printer driver + port. Sysadmin is allowed to change the ports
for existing printers, yeilding new print configurations. It would be great
to create those configurations temporaryly-dynamically at runtime not
affecting the static configurations. For instance, instead printer name you
specify the full path: printer name + "," + prot name. Is there a way to do
this?

I don't really know what you mean or what you are trying to achieve.

If it is a network printer, an administrator can change the port on the
server at any time, and it will take immediate effect. Also, printer pooling
can be used to associate a printer with multiple ports.

Paul

"valentin tihomirov" wrote in message
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Normally, you specify a name of printer to open when start printing. The
printer is a printer driver + port. Sysadmin is allowed to change the
ports for existing printers, yeilding new print configurations. It would
be great to create those configurations temporaryly-dynamically at runtime
not affecting the static configurations. For instance, instead printer
name you specify the full path: printer name + "," + prot name. Is there a
way to do this?

Please excuse me my incapability to express the ideas. The idea to choose a
port for a printer. A program wants to print on thit printer and direct the
output to that port. It constructs the chain: printer - port dynamically
without affecting system configuration.