Darin McBride on 20 Sep 98 in C_ECHO

Hello Darin

 SA>> In here, you could try:
 SA>> FILE *stdprn=fopen("prn","wt");

 DM> Woops!  If you continually open/close the printer, you could be
 DM> spooling seperate jobs - if there is a real device driver receiving
 DM> your data (such as the spooler), you could cause a page eject on each
 DM> fclose!  Lots of wasted paper.  Unless, of course, that's what he
 DM> wants.  :-)

Good point, hadn't considered that. 

Though I would personally blame the spooler for introducing rogue FF's. :)

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Simon

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