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From: roland@cochise
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I/O redirection to the printer
Message-ID: <1174@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 09:45:06 GMT
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Hallo Thomas,

UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET ("Thomas Koenig") writes:

>I am having a strange problem with I/O redirection.  To redirect
>standard output to the printer, I wrote the following test program:

I think You just re-discovered one of the older bugs of TOS.
I have hit upon this problem when trying to redirect the messages
from Turbo-C ( commandline version ) to a file. For the compiler TCC
this worked fine, however, the linker put out only NULs. ( Substituting
ALN as linker solved this problem. )

A little disassembling showed that the linker used Cconout() for
basic output, whereas TCC relied on Fwrite( 1, ... ).

>    Fclose (1);
>    Fforce (1, printhandle);
>    printf("Hello, world!\n");
>/*    Cconws("Hello, world!\n");    */

So try:
     Fwrite( 1, "Hello world!\n", 13 ) ; /* modulo correct ordering */

( This should work, and I suppose that the printf() is based on 
  F