• nnisbet express56.com Jan 01 2005
• Arjan Knepper <arjan ask.me> Jan 03 2005

nnisbet express56.com writes:

I am writing C programs for execution from Windows 2000's command line.  stdprn
(and stdaux) are defined in stdio.h only if __STDC__ and __NT__ are not.  I want
to compile for ANSI (-A) and use large long ints and long doubles, which require
-mn, So _STDC__ and __NT__ ARE defined, and I can not print with
fprintf(stdprn,...).

Is there a way around the above?  Is there another short way to send output to
the printer with -A and -mn active?

Arjan Knepper <arjan ask.me> writes:

nnisbet express56.com wrote:

 I am writing C programs for execution from Windows 2000's command line.  stdprn
 (and stdaux) are defined in stdio.h only if __STDC__ and __NT__ are not.  I
want
 to compile for ANSI (-A) and use large long ints and long doubles, which
require
 -mn, So _STDC__ and __NT__ ARE defined, and I can not print with
 fprintf(stdprn,...).
 
 Is there a way around the above?  Is there another short way to send output to
 the printer with -A and -mn active?
 
 


The command line on win-NT/2000/XP is NOT dos.

To write to the printer port use the win32 api functions:
OpenPrinter (..)
StartPagePrinter (..)
etc

When you really want to use dos because of the 'stdprn' etc, use an 
extender like dos x 32 see http://www.dosextender.com/

Arjan