Excerpted from message dated 12-04-96, Jorgen De Gier to Henk den Adel:

 HdA> How do I set the "Default Font Typeface" in plain C 
 HdA> code? (Borland BCC or
 HdA> IBM's ICC)

JG>What about the dos way? Create some files containing the escape codes
  >and simply copy them to the printer. Or open the printer as a file
  >and fwrite them.
  >Can't try it, my 80 kolum Star refuses to print the first 80 kolum (
  >really :-)

Hi Henk--

    I do it exactly Jorgen's way for some DOS programs that require
special setups, running in a VDM, and I suppose it would work for
"native" OS/2 programs.  However, there is one drawback.  In normal
operating mode, the printer is reset before every "job."  So your
carefully set up "default" would be lost before the
"real" file came
along, which would then run at the printer-driver default.  The solution
is to set the printer driver for the "IBMNULL" printer, so you have a
straight-though ASCII printer with no automatic reset.  This may or may
not cause problems, depending on the application mix.

    BTW, I write the little printer setup programs in 16-bit assembly
language and link them as DOS COM programs, running them in a VDM.  I
find it easier than monkeying around with C or even PL/I.

          --Murray

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