Depends on a few other factors...
1. You can assign LPT1: instead of the filename in assignfile and
just write to it.
2. If you need the user to be able to read whats bene printed so far
without the whole page having to be ejected (ie like a log printer)
then there is a lot more work.
Date sent: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:40:55 +1200
From: "Stephen Bertram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Priority: normal
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DUG] Printing to a dot matrix
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> Hi All
>
> I seem to recall seeing the answer to this somewhere - perhaps someone
> can refresh my memory?
>
> Using Delphi 5 I need to output directly to a bunch of dot matrix
> printers - I need to select the port (ideally on other workstations on
> the network) and output pure ASCII.
>
> While I can use TPrinter if I have to, I really want to squirt the
> output using a Writeln(Text) format. The data is already in a fixed
> font columnar format.
>
> TIA
>
> Stephen
>
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