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From: userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How can I send the null character to the printer?
Message-ID: <1354@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 22 Sep 90 14:11:52 GMT
References: <1990Sep22.012947.21558@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta
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In article <1990Sep22.012947.21558@agate.berkeley.edu>, bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers) writes:
>In order to define some downloadable characters for my dot matrix printer,
>I have to send it a series of character values encoding the bit patterns
>for the new characters.  Some of those encoded values are zero.  Of course
>if I send a string like "\x00\x20\xF3" to stdprn with a function like
>fputs, nothing gets sent, because the first \x00 is interpreted as the
>end of the string.  Do I need to do a direct bios call (bios_printer)?
>I can certainly manage that, but I just wondered if I was missing some
>more obvious solution within the more standard C functions...
>
>
>
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>Brian Myers                                      bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu
 
fwrite( buffer, size, count, stream );
 
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