Re: Printing to LPT1

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From: mike
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:52

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Thanks for answering Bob.

Tried all and it still won't send anything to the printer. Any other
suggestions.

Mike

"Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote in message
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> mike wrote:
>
> >I am wondering if someone could tell me why this code does not send
anything
> >to the printer I have attached to the lpt1 port.
> >
> >char buff[100];
> >
> >strcpy(buff,"Test");
> >
> >    FILE *ptr = fopen("LPT1","w");
>
> Open it in Binary mode  "wb"
> IIRC, in the DOS days, the port was "LPT1:"
> If the other changes don't fix it, try that.
>
> >fprintf(ptr,buff);
> >fclose(ptr);
>
> Some printers won't print partial lines.
> Add
> fprintf(ptr,"\r\n");
>
>
>

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