On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:55:48PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > John Carline wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Can someone give me a good reference for printing from a C program or > > perhaps a few lines of C or C++ code that will route program formated > > data/text to my local printer. > > > > There seems to be a glaring lack of this information in the 5 C/C++ > > books I have. > > > > Thanks for any assistance. > > John > > > > you can print through emacs, the whole file or parts of it and much more. > > Let us say you want to print a part of a C++ file in emacs where syntac > highlighting is ON. Select the desired region with your mouse, then > Ctrl-u M-x ps-print-region-with-highlighting is the command I think. > This will print the region to a PS file and you can then send that file > a printer. Alternatively, you can send the output directly to printer > instead of a PS file. > > ->HS > I believe what he's looking for is how to print from within a C/C++ app. My question is why re-invent the wheel. Why recode lp, just do one of: system("lp /tmp/my_report") fork/exec("lp /tmp/my_report") p = popen("lp"); fprintf(p, ...)
They would all seem to work while keeping up the traditions of unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]