Sending a file to the printer, how?

[Lord]

Hello all,

Say I have a file called "error.log" that I wish to send to the
printer. How would I print the file to the printer? I found out I can
use the SYSTEM function and send a command like

PRINT error.log

but that command is displayed on the screen which I don't want. I
would rather use some sort of c rountine if possible. I am using
Microsoft C v6.00. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!

Mark

[osmium]

Lord writes:

Say I have a file called "error.log" that I wish to send to the
printer. How would I print the file to the printer? I found out I can
use the SYSTEM function and send a command like

PRINT error.log

but that command is displayed on the screen which I don't want. I
would rather use some sort of c rountine if possible. I am using
Microsoft C v6.00. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!

You might look into the echo command. Please restrict any follow ups to
platform oriented newsgroups, distribution trimmed.

[Richard Bos]

Lord <Id***@hotmail.com> wrote:

Say I have a file called "error.log" that I wish to send to the
printer. How would I print the file to the printer?
<http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q19.8.html>.
I found out I can use the SYSTEM function

There is no SYSTEM function. C is case-sensitive: that function is
called system.

Richard

[Martin Ambuhl]

Lord wrote:

Hello all,

Say I have a file called "error.log" that I wish to send to the
printer. How would I print the file to the printer?

fopen the log file for input
fopen the printer
loop
read log file, if finished break
write to printer
endloop
fclose the log file
fclose the printer

remember to add appropriate error checking.


--
Martin Ambuhl

[SX001]

printer. How would I print the file to the printer? I found out I can
use the SYSTEM function and send a command like

PRINT error.log

but that command is displayed on the screen which I don't want. I but try this:

PRINT error.log >nul

or

COPY error.log PRN >nul

would rather use some sort of c rountine if possible. I am using
Microsoft C v6.00. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!

open the outputfile as PRN (default printer port) and then you had to send
the data to the port and close it.

best greetings,
Aleksander

[Malcolm]

"Lord" <Id***@hotmail.com> wrote in message

I would rather use some sort of c rountine if possible. I am using
Microsoft C v6.00. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!

You need to look up "printing" in your documentation. Unfortunately ANSI C
doesn't provide any portable printer functions, and platform-specific ones
tend to be rather complex to use because they have to deal with different
types of printer, sharing the printer with other programs or machines,
different paper sizes, graphic capabilities, and so forth.