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Those corrections did not solve the problem.
WritePrinter() still returns 0 when strlen() was used. The value for
GetLastError() is 6!
I have examined each of the characters in PCLSideTwo in the debugger and
they are correct.
I tried the changes for DrawText and it made no difference.  It looks like
DrawText is not transmitting the Esc character.
Do you have any idea what the error 6 means?

John

"JD" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3fcb9bc2$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "John Scott" <jscott@kw.igs.net> wrote:
> > [...] but the WritePrinter() function does not seem to work.
> > When I check in the debugger the function returns 0 which
> > indicates an error I believe.
>
> You're correct that a return of zero indicates an error. In
> that case, you need to call GetLastError to find out why it
> failed:
>
>     if( !WritePrinter() )
>       {
>           // GetLastError
>       }
>
> but I see a problem with your call to WritePrinter which may
> correct the error:
>
>     sizeof( PCLSideTwo )
>
> will always return the size of a character pointer because
> PCLSideTwo is a character pointer. What you want is the string
> length if PCLSideTwo instead:
>
>     strlen( PCLSideTwo )
>
> >  char *PCLSideTwo;
> >  PCLSideTwo="\x01B&a90P John Scott";
>
> This type of assignment has been depreciated although I doubt
> that it makes any difference. It should read:
>
>     char const *PCLSideTwo = "\x01B&a90P John Scott";
>
> > DrawText(Printer()->Handle, PCLSideTwo, -1, &Rect, DT_NOCLIP +
DT_NOPREFIX );
>
> The '+' symbol should be replaced with '|':
>
>     DrawText(Printer()->Handle, PCLSideTwo, -1, &Rect, DT_NOCLIP |
DT_NOPREFIX );
>
> > If I try the commented code using DrawText() then the \x01B
> > prints as a small square and the remaning text of PCLSideTwo
> > is printed.
>
> Changing the drawing flags ( | not + ) may fix your problem
> but I'm not convinced that your assignment for PCLSideTwo is
> correct. To be sure that the string is initialized with the
> correct values, try something like this:
>
>     char CommandString[ some length ] = { 0x1B, ...., 0x00 };
>
> ~ JD
>