I am stumped by a problem that seems like it should be simple. There is commercial software that might do it, but managing licenses can get sticky around here, so I would like to avoid that if possible.

The problem is that I have an old application that automatically sends printouts to the default Windows printer. It replaces an old teletype system where messages come in at random intervals. Well, I wish to save those to file(s) instead of print them. Windows has a "save to file" option for a print setup, but it prompts for a file name *each* time a new message comes in. I need this to be automatic for there will be no user waiting to answer prompts. I even tried writing a GUI script to fill in the answer to the prompts, but it sometimes got confused when things got out of sync. There could be thousands of potential messages per day, so any one going wrong can clog up the works.

One can also specify a file-name for a port, but each print job overwrites the previous file. I need it to either append or create a new file (such as sequential numbers or a date stamp). They are generally text files. (Windows 2000)

Thanks in advanced