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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Print redirection routine
Message-ID: <15@obie.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 06:15:50 GMT
References: <8801271313.AA10750@lasso.laas.fr>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
Lines: 32
Summary: C code fragment to redirect console/printer output

In article <8801271313.AA10750@lasso.laas.fr>, ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
> = = = = = = = = = = = = = :
> To: inria!score.stanford.edu!info-atari16
> Subject: Print redirection routine
> 
> what I'm looking for is an assembler or C program which would redirect
> the output of one of these programs to an ascii file rather than the printer.

You can redirect the output to printer in your program via the
following:

#define PRN 3
#define NULL ((char *) 0L)
...
	/*
	Put the command parameters in tail[1...].  tail[0] should
	equal the number of characters in the command tail, up to 127
	(I think - it seems to work).
	*/
	char tail[128];
...
	/*
	Force the printer handle to point to the disk file instead.
	*/
	Fforce(PRN, "disk:/file/name/path.ext");

	/*
	Now execute the program, the standard handles are inherited.
	*/
	Pexec(0, "disk:/program/name/path.prg", NULL, tail);
....

	Hope this helps whoever it was!