hl> hi Peter,

 PF>  hl> fflush(stdprn); close(dup(fileno(stdprn))); should do

 PF> stdprn (and stdaux) are not supported by os/2 compilers.

 hl> This first lines of the message you quoted, read:

 MG>    My DOS programs under OS/2 are not printing until the program
 MG> terminates. The statement:                        fprintf( stdprn,

 hl> He isn't using an OS/2 compiler (or maybe Watcom has 
 hl> one to produce DOS programs?  Then it should support 
 hl> stdprn and stdaux, or he would have another problem).

I've forgotten how I first answered,  but the solution is the same.

A dos program running under os/2 will support stdprn -- as best it can --
since it never has any idea when a "print job" is finished, 
except by a time-out or the user hitting ctal-alt-prtscrn.

The best solution,  which works well with OS/2, DOS, Novel and MS/IBM
networks,  is to never use stdprn;  fopen("prn", "wt")
instead...the moment you fclose() it,  the OS/LAN will know that the print
job has completed and will close/print its spool file.


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