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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Printing in Turbo Pascal (HELP!)
Message-ID: <1948@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 09:14:39 GMT
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ld@vax3.iti.org (Larry Dunn) writes:


<	I am working on a project using Turbo Pascal.  One
<	of the requirements is that I send a line of text
<	to a serial printer.  The program is very large
<	~30k compiled lines of code.

<	The Institue has bought Async Manager.  The problem
<	with Async Manager is that it addes too much code
<	to compile the program (OUT OF MEMORY).

<	I would like to know if there is a way (a small way)
<	to write text to COM ports.

Sure, use DOS to re-route LPT1: to COM1:!

mode com1:9600,n,8,1,p
mode lpt1:=com1:

TP will cheerfully send the data to LPT1 and DOS will send it to COM1
instead. True, your program isn't doing it, but it should suffice for
your purposes.
-- 
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