From: steve AT dosius DOT zzn DOT com (Dosius)
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Subject: Re: How to open LPT1: as file?
Date: 20 Feb 2003 08:56:43 -0800
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"Wolfgang v. Hansen" <hansen AT fom DOT fgan DOT de> wrote in message news:<3E509273 DOT 2040107 AT fom DOT fgan DOT de>...
> 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

Does fopen("/dev/lpt1","wb") work?

-uso.