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Since you are a beginner, I'll give you an assignment.  I know how to do
what you ask, and I'll tell you... I just won't use any real code.

Open a file named "prn" OR "lpt[123]" those are your printer device files
in DOS (lpt1 is the first printer, lpt2 the second, etc, while prn is
just the first printer it finds).  Treat them just like normas ASCII
files, text not binary, provided you only want text.  Then write to the
file using normal file IO routines.  When you are done, close the printer
file.

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, tshep wrote:

> Dear group,
>     Can anyone please give me a snippet of code demonstrating how to
>  direct output to the printer in C using DJGPP.
>     I'm a beginner and the method used by my book does not work
> correctly.
>     Any help would be appreciated.