HELP! How do I send Escape codes and text directly to LPT1: ??

Johan Kotze

Delphi Developer

Sun, 22 Nov 1998 03:00:00 GMT

HELP! How do I send Escape codes and text directly to LPT1: ??

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J?rgen Hjelm <jorgen.hj...@ronneby.mail.telia.com> writes:
> I want to send Escape codes and text directly to LPT1:,
> without using Windows printing system. Can someone please give
> me an advise of the easyest way to achive this ? (I want
> to reuse some code from my C++ for DOS applications)

J?rgen

I have successfully open the printer port as an untyped file
and used blockwrite to send binary data to the printer. I know
this is not the most elegant way, but it works for me.

Johan Kotze

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