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


Ken Plotkin wrote:
> 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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