Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:24:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Joe Davidson <dream_acres AT compuserve DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Printing
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Joe Davidson wrote:

> Could someone help with with showing me how to do some somple printing
> ruitines?  I would assume that use bios_print(), but I am not sure, or is
> there an easier way to redirect stdout to the printer or buffer temporarily
> so I can do something like cout << data; and have it go to the
> printer/buffer?

`_bios_printer' or `biosprint' are for low-level interfce to the
printer.  If you need to print plain text, it is much better and
easier to either use redirection on the command line ("foo >> prn") or
use the built-in stream `stdprn'.  Alternatively, open the name of the
printer port ("PRN", "LPT1", etc.) as if it were a file and use that.