Printing files

[vninja]

Hey There,

I'm learning C++ two different ways (in a class and through a book). right now i'm stuck (getting ahead) and i'm looking how to print a simple text file. problem being that on my computer i do not have a printer (as i'm making a program for a friend) and need to print a file which is the only thing i'm not too sure about doing. its a simple command prompt window so i don't need to creat any forms (yet). any help would be greatly appreciated.

so far i got this but not too sure if it will send to the printer

system("print txtfile.txt");

would that line print the file?
if not what line(s) would?

thx\
V

[Banfa]

system("print txtfile.txt");

would that line print the file?

Possibly/probably. unfortunately printing just isn't simple.

You could also try

ShellExecute(NULL, "print", "txtfile.txt", NULL, NULL, 0);
 

[vninja]

Thx man, is there a library/class with the ShellExecute function?

[Banfa]

It's part of the Windows API, not sure where it exists in all that .NET garbage

[vninja]

cool. unfortuneatly i'm learning with the .NET garbage. Thx for the help