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From: John C. Lusth
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:38

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This question maybe a FAQ; if it is, I most humbly apologize and will
wait anxiously for it to appear as it is not on site at the moment.

How does one print using OWL?  The Borland documentation is very confusing
to me (perhaps because I'm a windows newbie).  It seems to me that
all I would need to do is instead of writing to a display context
I would write to device context instead.  Windows should take
care of everything else for me.  Thus, if I had a function that produced
some output, I would send it a device context or a display context
depending on where I wanted the output to go.  Am I being naive? 

Another question is how to I get a device context?  The CreateDC function
needs the driver name, the device name, and so on.  Why do I need to
supply these things?  I just want output to go to the default printer.

Would some kind soul send me a minimal program to print the phrase
"Hello, world!" via Windows?

thanks muchly,

john
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John C. Lusth, Becton Dickinson Research Center, RTP, NC, USA  jcl@bdrc.bd.com

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