Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!jimp
From: jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How can I send the null character to the printer?
Message-ID: <8832@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 90 17:10:44 GMT
References: <15.26FC622E@ananke.stgt.sub.org>
Reply-To: jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 17

In article <15.26FC622E@ananke.stgt.sub.org> kaiser@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser) writes:
>`t BM> In order to define some downloadable characters for my dot matrix printer,
> BM> I have to send it a series of character values encoding the bit patterns
> BM> for the new characters.  Some of those encoded values are zero.
>
>Make your own 'fputs', using 'putc'. 'putc' should transmit ANY code (unless you 
>operate in text mode on a PC running MSDOS :-).

ANY (faithful) implement of fputs will have the same problem. fputs is
DEFINED to transmit only up to the first NUL, and so will never
transmit a NUL byte by definition. However, fputc or putc will work in
other contexts, as will fwrite (as someone else has already noted).
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