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to: Stu Mark
from: David Noon
date: 1994-11-10 21:59:00
subject: print to file

On Thursday, 1994-11-10  Stu Mark wrote to All about "print to file"
as follows:

SM>    Second: Does anybody know how to get os2/ to NOT ask you 
SM> for a file name when you want to print to a file. [?]

Hi Stu,

When you open the printer device context by callinng DevOpenDC() you
will pass it the address of a DEVOPENSTRUC which contains a field
called pszLogAddress - the very first field in the structure. If you set
this field to the address of the fully qualified path/file name (in
ASCIIZ) to which you want to print, it will use that instead of LPT1:
(or whatever), provided the device driver for that spool queue has been
written to support this. If the printer settings include a "print to
file" option then this should be so.

If you aren't writing the code yourself you might be SOL. ... :-(

Regards

Dave

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