Re: Dusting off Visual/Digital Fortran - how the heck to migrate printing?

On 14 Jan 2006 02:23:25 -0600, "Dave Weatherall"
<djw-nothere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]
>IIRC on DOS the physical printer was PRN: I guess on WIndows you
>might be able to write to COMn if you attach a serial printer to seral
>port n. Never tried it though. Only ever used PRN or LPTn:. Check out
>the port names in the Printer control panel.
[snip]

That's right. PRN: is still the default system printer. LPTn: will
send it to a specific printer port, and COMn: will send it to a serial
port. Haven't seen a serial printer on a PC for years, though.

You leave the : off, so it's file= 'lpt1', not file='lpt1:'.

If the printer is on a USB port, addressing that can get a little
bizarre, involving capturing the port as a network device.

Ken Plotkin

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