Alternative Visual Appel

This program was developed as a simple replacement for VisualAppel to send the reports on plain text to the local printer. The solution has 2 parts:

1) Window’s Listener

Description: Listener on port 8080 and Display a Preview.
Requirements: Port 8080 Free, Java 1.8
Use: %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -jar printserver.jar

2) PrintJob Sender
Description: Script to send de text plain content
Requirements: nc installed, Session started with SSh.
Before Use: Set execution grants to the script.
chmod +x printwin.sh
Use:
From 4gl
START REPORT tabs_rpt TO PIPE "printwin.sh"
From Shell
echo "example" | printwin.sh or
printwin.sh textplain.txt

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