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- From: rickt@aruba.UUCP (Rickey Thomas Tom)
- Subject: Specifying printer ports
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.150935.20036@aruba.uucp>
- Sender: rickt@aruba (Rickey Thomas Tom)
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:09:35 GMT
- Organization: Project Zed
- Keywords: printer
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- I have an application that requires printing through the parallel port.
- Normally, I could say something like
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- fprintf( stdprn,".....");
-
- However, I believe that this will send output to LPT1. But, in my application, I
- am using LPT1 to do other things (interrupt driven data acquisition). I need a
- way of forcing output to LPT2 within the program. I have several TSR program
- which would work, but I would like to avoid using them if I can.
-
- Although my program does work (LPT1 for acquisition), LPT2 for printing, the
- sucess of printing is unpredictable. Sometimes it prints OK, sometimes, it locks
- the system. I suspect that part of the problem is related to the fact that I
- don't explicitly force printing to LPT2. Am I right ???
-
- Thnak you in advance
-
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