Printing to a windows printer

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hello,

how to print from a Dosprogram to a Windowsprinter ?

Thanks and regards

Matthias Kuhn



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[Marco Pontello]

A possible solution, not too elegant, is to write to a file and then copy that file to the port / device / queue with a SHELL "COPY myfile.prn \\myserver\mysharedprinter".

Bye!

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[Mel Bishop]

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[Mike Doty]

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/addons/printers.asp
I use ddoc by Don Dickinson and wrote a program
that accepts arguments using SHELL on the command line.
In the passed COMMAND I tell ddoc what to do like print
a text file, etc. Supports mailing labels, printing in
columns, email and many other functions. Use if for
all printing. Very inexpensive, easy to use and comes with
source. Backed by Don you can't go wrong.


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[Brian Harney]

I converted my PBDOS programs to write reports to an RTF file and then
shell to Word passing Word the name of the RTF file. I can then print my report
using Word and perhaps do some tweaking before printing.
RTF is easy for simple stuff. Try it.

BTW, I also do this with some old Turbo Pascal and FoxBase and dBASE III programs.
This has extended the life of these programs.


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