Subj : Sending catenated cstring strings to the printer
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "George Tamero" <geotman_2000@yahoo.com>
Date : Sat Feb 28 2004 06:45 pm

Dear Help;

For DOS apps I use the following code to send catenated CHAR ARRAYS to the printer...
char Text1[30]="My ";
char Text2[30]="Cool ";
char Text3[30]="Text ";
char Text4[30]="read like this...\n";
char mca[300]="";
strcpy(mca, Text1);
strcat(mca, Text2);
strcat(mca, Text3);
strcat(mca, Text4);
cout<<DnT<<endl;
cout<<"Be sure printer is turned ON--Press any key to print..."<<endl;
getch();
Printer_BeginDoc();
Printer_Print(DnT);
Printer_EndDoc();

FILE *file;
//open printer
int Printer_BeginDoc(void)
{
	if((file = fopen("PRN", "wt")) == NULL)
   return 1; // error

   return 0;
}

// write string to printer
int Printer_Print(string inptString)
{ // write returns 0=success, 1=trouble
   char* whatToPrint="";
   strcpy(whatToPrint, StringToArray(inptString));
 	if(fputs(whatToPrint, file) != EOF)
  	return 0;

 	return 1;
}

// finish with printer
int Printer_EndDoc(void)              // close returns 0=success
{
 	return(fclose(file));
}

...And that code works FINE for sending char arrays to the printer but when catenating STRINGS from CSTRING by using the MyCoolString.append from cstring.h The printer will only hold a maximum of 3 catenated strins, beyond that nothing else prints...
Can sombody tell my how to sent MORE than 3 catenated string class string objects to the printer. I'm using a borland 5.02 compiler.

Thank You,
George

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