c and printers

[the_ruthless]

hello i'm using borland C

i'm coding a program, that does the following

a user types in a text. he can save this this file or print it but for the secod thing i dont have a clue how to start with that.
so my question is how can i print that saved txt file from C out?
i know it has to do something with streams and i/o but i dont know how to start with it
i hope someone can help me with that, thanks allot

[redhead]

Google found this for me:

#define PRINTDRIVER

#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <print.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int PrintHPFile( const char *filename )
{
        char *pszPrInfo = new char[ 80 ];

        // Get the printer setup string from the ini file
        GetProfileString( "windows", "device", ",,,", pszPrInfo, 80 );

        // Format of ini file line = <Device,Driver,Port>
        char *pszDevice = strtok( pszPrInfo, "," );
        char *pszDriver = strtok( NULL, "," );
        char *pszPort = strtok( NULL, "," );

        // create a printer device context
        HDC PrintHandle = CreateDC( pszDriver, pszDevice, pszPort,
                        NULL );

        // get a job handle, allocate a buffer
        HPJOB PrintJob;
        char *buf = new char[ 1024 ];

        // open the file for reading
        FILE *hp_file = fopen( filename, "rb" );

        // Start the print job
        PrintJob = OpenJob( pszPort, filename, (HPJOB)PrintHandle );
        StartSpoolPage( PrintJob );

        // print the file, 1K at a time
        for( size_t i(0);; )
        {
                i = fread( buf, 1, 1023, hp_file );
                if( i>0 )
                        WriteSpool( PrintJob, buf, i );
                else
                        break;
        }

        // Close up print job
        EndSpoolPage( PrintJob );
        CloseJob( PrintJob );

        // Clean up
        DeleteDC( PrintHandle );
        fclose( hp_file );
        delete[] pszPrInfo;
        delete[] buf;
        return 1;
}

[the_ruthless]

thx i will try this in a few minutes

[the_ruthless]

i get a error in borland c++
and it says

error TESTFILE.cpp 32 : cannot convert 'const char*' to 'char *' in function printHPFile(const char*)

error TESTFILE.cpp 32 : Type mismatch in parameter in call to 'pascal OpenJob(char *, char * , unsigned int)' in function printHPFile(const char*)

[redhead]

then try changing:

int PrintHPFile( const char *filename )
{
..

to

int PrintHPFile( char *filename )
{
...

[the_ruthless]

thx redhead for fixing that error
but now i get a linker error what does that mean??

linker error : undifined symbol main in library file C:\BC45\LIB\cwl.lib in module winmain

i tryed to find it myself first and still trying but i dont know

[redhead]

Originally Posted by the_ruthless

linker error : undifined symbol main in library file C:\BC45\LIB\cwl.lib in module winmain

Don't know what that might point towards.. I've never used the Borland comiler, but from previus experiences this might be because your project needs to be linked to a specific library, with gcc this is accomplished by -l<library> But since it's an undefined symbol, could it be your program dosn't have a main() function ??

[the_ruthless]

yeah no it was idd e fault in my main
now i got 2 figure out how to use that PrintHPFile(char *filename ) thingie