Re: How to print?

[kmakaron mail bg]

Hi, .-:Namarie:-., you can simply do fil=fopen("/dev/lp0","w") and then write
all the ASCII characters you want to print with
write(fil,message,strlen(message));
I suppose for USB ones you have to some more complicated things. May be driver
needed.

Bye.
Dragomir


> Hi, group.
>
> I'm a beginner on programming in Linux (as everyone has been, i hope ;)
> and using GTK1.4 (I think!)
>
> I haven't seen in GTK documentation (I've been looking a bit, but not a
> lot) any way to print like sending to a file. I mean, imagine someone that
> connects an old printer to the LPT, without "installing" it (just like old
> MS-DOS printers). Can I send directly the characters to the lpt port? Like
> <<write (lpt1, "hello\n");>>
>
> (I wish it was any "dos-like" way to print something...
>
> Don't know if it's a GTK call or a system call...
>
> Thanks in advance and sorry if it's not where I've to ask this...
>
> .-:Namarie:-.
>
> p.s. another question, is there any way to write and read to/from USB like
> doing it with files?
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