From: vtailor AT gte DOT net
Subject: Re: Windows version of Unix lpr program doesn't work?
2 Jun 1998 02:06:56 -0700
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>   vtailor AT gte DOT net
>   Sun, 31 May 1998 23:37:55 -0500 (CDT)
>       
>If you have a printer that no longer accepts character printing from
>stdio functions, you will appreciate the need for a Windows version of
>the Unix lpr program, especially as an accessory to Internet programs
>that use lpr under Unix to print character files.
>
>The following lpr.c code compiles and works as a 16-bit application,
>using Borland 4.52, but compiles and _doesn't_ work when compiled
>using MINGW32.
>
>Does anyone have any constructive suggestions for making the code work
>under MINGW32?
>
If you add code to lpr.c to find out what Windows 95 believes to be the
cause of the MINGW32 PrintDlg error, you get an Extended Error Code of 1,
CDERR_STRUCTSIZE.  Presumably, this means that taking `sizeof(PRINTDLG)'
as the structure size is wrong, which is odd.

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