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- From: gmcarthu@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Grant McArthur)
- Subject: Re: Printing ASCII
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- Summary: DosOpen()
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:46:18 GMT
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- In article <1ihok0INNmb8@morrow.stanford.edu> GG.MPD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Michael Durket) writes:
- >Is there an interface into OS/2 printing that allows you to
- >submit an ASCII file to be printed on any printer (i.e. does
- >OS/2 have a general purpose ASCII to printer-dependent page
- >formatting routine)? I'd like to avoid writing a routine to
- >do this for my program if one already exists that I can use.
- >
- >Any assistance is appreciated.
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- Use LPT1: (or whatever printer port you wish) like a file. Use DosOpen with
- LPT1: as the file name, and then treat it like a file with DosWrite() calls.
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- I found that worked nicely for printed ASCII to a printer. (My case was
- information tables to a HP emulating printer by the NULL printer driver.)
-
- Hope this helps,
- Grant McArthur
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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