From: davecook AT home DOT com (David M. Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Is there a standard easy way to print to a printer?
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 05:43:23 GMT
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:46:22 -0600, Tim <tssymanc AT ucalgary DOT ca> 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).

You can fopen prn: and send stuff with fwrite or fprintf.  When you're done
send a form feed ('\f').

Dave Cook