Message-Id:	<199612300146.CAA20148@math.amu.edu.pl>
Comments:	Authenticated sender is <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
From:	"Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization:	Home, sweet home (Poznan, Poland)
To:	murray AT southeast DOT net (Murray Stokely), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 30 Dec 1996 02:45:52 +0100
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Detecting Operating System
Reply-to:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl

Once upon a time (on 29 Dec 96 at 4:01) Murray Stokely said:

>      Also is it possible to use the Windows 95 print manager from
> console applications with DJGPP?  Wouldn't I need a windows.h file
> or something?  Printing straight to LPT1 can realy mess up things if
> you're already printing something in Windows.   I thought for sure
> this topic had been discussed before, but I checked the faq and mail
> archives with no avail.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks..
I forgot to answer this one ;-)) Well, the answer is YES and NO. YES 
because usually Windows 95 intercepts all printing requests made from 
within DOS (it does so by watching the activity on LPTx ports) - I 
suspect, however, that you want to control the W95 PM. NO, because 
DJGPP applications are not native Win95 console ones, and thus cannot 
gain access to Win95 kernel functions. I think it might be possible 
to control the print manager by the exported VxD entries - but you'd 
have to get some toolkit and reference on that (such as VtoolsD 
package).

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