From: "Wolfgang v. Hansen" <wolfgang DOT von DOT hansen AT fom DOT fgan DOT de>
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Subject: Re: How to open LPT1: as file?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:55:09 +0100
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Rafael García wrote:

> Wolfgang v. Hansen wrote:
> > I tried to fopen("LPT1:", "w") but that didn't succeed.
>
> I ever use printers this way and it works perfectly.
> Please tell us more about your configuration.

I think I found the reason why it didn't work. It seems that you have to
have a printer driver configured for the port you wish to use. IMHO this
is somehow odd, because I wanted to bypass any windows driver.

BTW, does the generic text driver send all raw data to the printer
correctly?


Wolfgang