From: mike AT mbsun DOT mlb DOT org (Mike Bernson)
Subject: Write to spooler Direct
18 Jun 1997 22:58:06 -0700
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I have a program that need to write to bytes to the printer (spooled)

It make calles to
OpenJob, StartSpoolPage, WriteSpool, EndSpoolPage, CloseJob.

I have added the neeeded prototypes to this single program. Once
it compiles it does not link. Does anyone known which dll's the
function are in.

Also I need the .def for .dll so I can link to it.


Is there a better way of write bytes to the spooled printer. What I
have is binary file that has all the control sequences for the HP4
printer and need a way to get it printer.


The program is despooler reports built on a unix box and need to
print them on the local printers.

I have attached small program that will compile and run under
Borland compiler. I need it compile under GNUWIN32 stuff.

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#define PRINTDRIVER
#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <print.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>

HDC	print_handle;
char	*print_device;
char	*print_driver;
char	*print_port;

void	print_file(char *file_name);

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	char	print_info[80];
   int	i;

 
   /*
	 * Get the default printer for the system
    */
 	GetProfileString("windows","device", ",,,", print_info, 80);

	/*
	 * Parse out the device name, print driver, printer port
    */
	print_device = strtok(print_info, ",");
	print_driver = strtok(NULL, ", ");
	print_port = strtok(NULL, ", ");

   if (print_device == NULL || print_driver == NULL ||
   	print_port == NULL) {

      fprintf(stderr, "No default printer found\n");
      return 1;
   }

   /*
    * get the printer device context for the default printer.
    * This is need so that we may create/print files.
    */
	print_handle = CreateDC(print_driver, print_device, print_port, NULL);
   if (print_handle == NULL) {
   	fprintf(stderr, "Can not create context for default printer\n");
		return 2;
	}

   /*
    * Loop creating a spooled print job for each file that
    * was requested to be printed.
    */
   for(i=1; i < argc; i++) {
		print_file(argv[i]);
	}

   /*
    * Be a nice program and release the print context that we allocated
    */
	DeleteDC(print_handle);

   return 0;
}

void
print_file(char *file_name)
{
	HPJOB	print_job;
	char	buffer[1024];
	FILE	*input;
	int	size;

   /*
    * Create a print job to allow us to spool the output to the
    * system default printer
    */
	print_job = OpenJob(print_port, file_name,  (HPJOB)print_handle);
	/*
    * Start the logical page/printjob
	 */
	if (StartSpoolPage(print_job) < 0) {
      fprintf(stderr, "Could not create page on default printer\n");
      CloseJob(print_job);
   }

   /*
    * Open the file that we are about to spool to the printer
    */
	input = fopen(file_name, "rb");
   if (input == NULL) {
   	fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", strerror(errno));
      return;
   }

   /*
    * Loop copying data from the file to printer. Keep on
    * copying data till we hit the end of the file.
    */
	for(;;) {
		size = fread(buffer, 1, sizeof(buffer), input);
		if (size <= 0)
			break;

		WriteSpool(print_job, buffer, size);
	}

   /*
    * We are done with the input file. Close it
    */
    fclose(input);

   /*
    * We have spool all the data in the file. It is now time to
    * end this page/print job
    */
	EndSpoolPage(print_job);
	CloseJob(print_job);
}

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