How do you Output Rosters?

[Davis911]

I've had the game for a while, and am very interested in submitting my dynasty reports.

But I have no idea how to output my rosters or other stats into a text file. A while back someone told someone else with the same problem to print the rosters to file. I have no idea how to do this. Could someone explain this or another way of doing it?

Thanks

[QuikSand]

By my best recollection...

Go to your Control Panel, and choose Printers. You should have an option to Install New Printer. One choice will be "generic/text printer"-- essentialy setting up an option to "print" your output to a text file only. Set this up - it will not require any drivers or files.

Then, when you print from FOF (or something else) you may elect this printer from your print menu. You basiclally name a file, and the output is dumped into a text file with the name you chose. You may then open this up in a word processing program of your choice, and can copy/paste into forum postings.

You may find that including text dumps into career threads is helped by the use of the "prefortted text" tag in -html. This converts it to the smaller, evenly-0spaced font that appears in many career threads. To do this, use these labels immediately before and after your text (as below):

{pre}
your text here
{/pre}

(Only replace the ornate brackets above with the "less than" and "greater than" symbols)


Hope all that is specific enough to help. God luck with your career, and your thread.

[MIJB#19]

<pre>you mean like this?</pre>

[Thomkal]

You'd think I'd know how to do this by now, but I'm having a bit of problem with this process. I'm seem to be fine until I get to Port, I tried through the printer port, and it printed on my printer, not to a text file, I then deleted that one, and chose FILE as the next port option.

I then tested it out in FOF2001, and the window pops open giving me a choice for where to put the file, but then just sits there when I click on OK. What am I doing wrong? I have Windows 98SE if that matters

Dan/Thomkal

[CubsFan915]

Are you naming the file?

[Thomkal]

Cubsfan,

Yep, tried it both ways, naming and not, still nothing.

Dan

[Marmel]

I like the small ofnt you used up there!

[RPI-Fan]

Would it be appreciated if someone stepped up and produced an "official" document on how to do this? Since the opening of the new board, at least 4 or 5 times this has been asked, and I think a lot of people would find it helpful to have a clear, step-by-step documentation of what they need to do.

I'll step up to the task if wanted, just lemme' know.

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Secant, Tangent, Cosin, Sin, 3.14159!

[Thomkal]

RPI-Fan,

I think the whole group of us who read/post here would kiss ya if you did this for us...er well a hearty handshake at least.
Thanks for volunteering to do this if you end up doing it.

Dan

[mckerney]

I think I'm starting to understand it now.