From:	"D. Vrabel" <dv207 AT hermes DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Is there a standard easy way to print to a printer?
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:15:42 +0100
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tim wrote:
> I was wondering if somebody could tell me if there was a standard
> easy way to print text to a standard text printer; is there just a
> "stream" or something? (And if there's not, I was hoping somebody could
> explain to me how else I could do it; All I want to do is to be able to
> print out some really basic text, nothing fancy).

Open a stream/file with the name of PRN which is the DOS filename for the
printer.
eg in C++
    fstream printer( "PRN" );
in C
    FILE* printer=fopen( "PRN" "wb" );
(I think this is write I haven't written in C for ages. )

David.

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