Thread: How to print directly from compile screen?

Am I correct in saying that this so far has flpt point to lpt:1, and I then send the text "Test print.\n\nTest print.\n\nTest print.\n\n" to the file which is allegedly the printer? Clarification is an essential thing to attain, and so that is my first question.

Secondly, I have sent text to the printer, but now need to tell flpt to print with out using the syntax

Code:

fprintf(flpt, JUST PRINT THE TEXT, DARN YOU!!!!!!!!);

Thirdly, windows has a built in print command that I can access through the system?

Okay, so I've been getting somewhere. I will just print from a notepad file, but now I need some help. Swap your username for "USERNAME", and the question marked part should be mostly all that's missin. Here's what I got:
[code]

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  FILE *flpt;
  flpt = fopen("C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAME\\Desktop\\test.txt", "w");
  if (flpt == NULL) { 
     perror("open C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAME\\Desktop\\Test.txt"); 
     exit(1); 
  }
  fprintf(flpt, "Test print.\n\nTest print.\n\nTest print.\n\n");
  system(PRINT [/*?????????*/] [flpt]);
}
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I found the PRINT system function and syntax at the previously suppled website (thanks again), but I don't get the first part. Thanks!

Also, PRINT reads as an error, it is expected to be defined first.

Great, no error reports! Now I just have o get my hands on a printer... Thanks though, man!

Okay. Haven't gotten to a printer yet, but one more hopefully quick thing. The file doesn't need to exist, because it has "w" after I open it, so it will be create if it doesn't exist. Now, how do I delete it when I'm done so it doesn't have to be there?

is there any way i can redirect the output to a network printer installed on the local network..

Originally Posted by technosavvy

is there any way i can redirect the output to a network printer installed on the local network..

Assuming that you're on a Windows network, You can use NetUseAdd to establish a connection to a remotely *shared* printer. Essentially, you would be programmatically executing the equivalent of the following NET USE command line statements:

Assume PRTA is the current network printer being used by your workstation, you would first delete this connection as follows:

NET USE LPT1 /DEL

Now you wish to use PRTB as follows

NET USE LPT1 \\SomeServer\PRTB

Your have just changed your printing thru LPT1 from PRTA to PRTB. Again, assuming that PRTB is a SHARED printer.

The remove function doesn't get rid of the file. Maybe I was unclear, but I want Test.txt to be deleted if that is easy.

Also, when I create the file, can it be called a different name according to a string?(only matters if I can't delete it)

Thanks
-Matt

All I did was add this line to the end

Code:

remove("C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAME\\Desktop\\Test.txt");

and nothing happened when I compiled it besides making the file Test.txt.