From:	"Wolfgang v. Hansen" <hansen AT fom DOT fgan DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	How to open LPT1: as file?
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:42:43 +0100
Organization:	Customers of TopLink Internet Services, Germany
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Hi,

I would like to access an old dot matrix printer directly just by 
opening the port and sending appropriate bytes to it. I tried to 
fopen("LPT1:", "w") but that didn't succeed.

Wolfgang

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