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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: window help
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Date: 15 Feb 89 20:47:00 GMT
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In article <23793@pbhya.PacBell.COM> hbit@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Henry Bitter) writes:
<I am trying to get a small C program working that is using both Intuition and
<DOS. My problem is after creating my own screen and window the output that is
<created using printf commands still goes to the workbench screen and window.

This is a pretty common request. As far as I can tell, the answer is
"you can't get there from here." At least not with what is provided by
CBM.

First thing: you're almost certainly never going to be able to use
printf itself. fprintf is doable, under certain conditions. If your C
compiler supports dup() fdup(), or something similar, you might be
able to go from fprintf to printf. It's not clear you want to, though.

The canonical answer is "use sprintf() and Text()." You call sprintf
instead of printf, giving it a charater buffer to output to, then use
Text() to print the characters in your window.

As an alternative, you can use conman. It's shareware, and on one of
the Fish disks. Using it, you can fopen() a CON: (if you've isntalled
it as CON:) or CNC: (if you wish to leave the standard console handler
in place) window, giving it the address of a window structure to
attach itself to. The result of that fopen will be a FILE * you can
hand to fprintf

Now, if someone knows of a way supported by CBM of getting a
FileHandle pointing to a window after you've opened a file, that would
very usefull. I'd like to see it if you know how.

	<mike
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