W. eWatson wrote:
Tim Chase wrote:
The pseudo-pipeline comparison would be
type file.txt > lpt1:
which would send the raw text file to the printer (assuming it's set up
on LPT1, otherwise, use whatever port it's attached to in your printer
control panel); or are you using something like
notepad file.txt
File -> Print
I should mention I'm using Windows. I just put chr(12) right in the txt.
It's the first character in the next line of the txt file where I want
to page forward. Not acquainted with GDI. Maybe I need some sequence of
such characters?
It's not a matter of you controlling the GDI stuff. Unless
you're writing directly to the printer device, printing on
Windows is done (whether by Notepad, gvim, Word, Excel, whatever)
into a graphical representation which is then shipped off to the
printer. So if you're printing from Notepad, it's going to print
what you see (the little square), because Notepad renders to this
graphical representation to print. If you send the file
*directly* to the printer device (bypassing the Win32 printing
layer), it will send the ^L directly and should eject a new page
on most printers.
-tkc
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