How to spool LPT1 on win98?

[Allan]

I open and write LPT1 as file with standart file i/o functions. But it
sends directly to the printer on win98 without spooling.But when I
send something from command prompt (dos) to LPT1 it is spooled. Is
there a way that I can
use LPT1 and spooling using C?

*1 I tried open/write and fopen/fputs functions
*2 Spooling is turned on on printer's properties
Example code:

FILE *fp=NULL;
fp = fopen("LPT1", "w");
if (fp)
{
fprintf(fp, "test\n");
fclose(fp);
}

 

[Thomas Matthews]

I open and write LPT1 as file with standart file i/o functions. But it
sends directly to the printer on win98 without spooling.But when I
send something from command prompt (dos) to LPT1 it is spooled. Is
there a way that I can
use LPT1 and spooling using C?

*1 I tried open/write and fopen/fputs functions
*2 Spooling is turned on on printer's properties
Example code:

FILE *fp=NULL;
fp = fopen("LPT1", "w");
if (fp)
{
fprintf(fp, "test\n");
fclose(fp);
}

Spooling is outside the domain of the C++ language
and thus not discussed here. Operating systems take
care of spooling and other resources such as printers
and harddrives.

Try a newsgroup that discusses your operating system.
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