I will try that out -but will I not loose the HTML formatting on the
printed page?
//john
At 2200 2/7/00 , you wrote:
>Would it be easier just to write a text file that's formatted for the
>printer rather than for the web? At the moment, you've got:
>
>write %form.html reduce [
> <html><HEAD><STYLE>H1= {page-break-before:always}</STYLE></HEAD>
> <body><CENTER><H1>"K.B.I. Application"</H1></CENTER><H5>
>SNIP!
> </body></html>
>]
>
>web-page: read %form.html
>
>Wouldn't this be better as:
>
>web-page: reduce [
> <html><HEAD><STYLE>H1= {page-break-before:always}</STYLE></HEAD>
> <body><CENTER><H1>"K.B.I. Application"</H1></CENTER><H5>
>SNIP!
> </body></html>
>]
>
>for the web page and then:
>
> write %printer.txt rejoin [
> "Name:" cgi/name newline
> "SSN:" cgi/ssn newline
> "Address: " cgi/address newline
> "City: " cgi/city newline
> ]
>
>and to print directly to the printer on Windows machines, use a function
>like:
>
>Printer: func [Text [string!] /Page] [
> secure [
> %//prn [allow write]
> ]
> write %//prn Text
> ; Append Carriage Return (CR) and Page Feed.
> if Page [write/binary %//prn "^(0D)^(page)"]
> Text
> ]
>
>then you can do:
> Printer rejoin [
> "Name:" cgi/name newline
> ; blah blah blah
> ]
>
>Would that help?
>
>Andrew Martin
>ICQ: 26227169
>http://members.xoom.com/AndrewMartin/
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