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print to USB from Qbasic I recently updated my system to XP-2 with a pentium III. I have a number of qbasic programs I developed to use in my hobbies and lo and behold, I can't print to my usb port. The programs run okay. I should think this is a problem that has been solved many times but I haven't run acrossed the answer. Perhaps print-to-file then open and print the file with notepad or something. Any ideas?
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Re: print to USB from Qbasic May 'the Google' be with you!
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Thanks! i check it out but i think i found a solution and it was as i suspected with a little wrinkle thrown in that makes it easier. 1st - create a text file the with the SHELL command you can open wordpad with a /p and the file name and wordpad will open the file and send it to the default windows printer. i haven't developed the code yet so wish me luck.
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Dear Paul,
this article might help: How to print from BASIC DOS to any Windows printer
Regards,
Davide
this article might help: How to print from BASIC DOS to any Windows printer
Regards,
Davide
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You can use
LPRINT , can't you? Toshiba M115 ● 1.49 GB DDR-2 RAM ● 1.6 GHz Centrino Duo ● 80GB HDD ● Windows XP Media Center Edition
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Originally Posted by linux 
You can use LPRINT , can't you? LPRINT is hardcoded to LPT1: (only) and doesn't offer a way to close the LPT port at the print job end, causing long delays in newer Windows systems. Changing "LPRINT" with "PRINT #" as explained in the article above is easy with a good text editor and solves both those problems.
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Originally Posted by paul2594
Thanks! i check it out but i think i found a solution and it was as i suspected with a little wrinkle thrown in that makes it easier. 1st - create a text file the with the SHELL command you can open wordpad with a /p and the file name and wordpad will open the file and send it to the default windows printer. i haven't developed the code yet so wish me luck.
Thanks for you help. paul
PRINT #1, "Just testing the code."
CLOSE 1
SHELL "C:\PATH\WORDPAD.EXE"
That's all there is to it.
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Originally Posted by RWGBob
OPEN "O",1,"PRINT.TMP"
PRINT #1, "Just testing the code."
CLOSE 1
SHELL "C:\PATH\WORDPAD.EXE"
That's all there is to it.
SHELL "C:\PATH\WORDPAD.EXE PRINT.TMP"
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Originally Posted by RWGBob
SHELL "C:\PATH\WORDPAD.EXE"
That's all there is to it.
You should create an RTF file for Wordpad instead of a TXT, and translate all the Bold, Condensed and other control codes sent by the Basic program into the corresponding RTF commands.
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Originally Posted by paul2594
I recently updated my system to XP-2 with a pentium III. I have a number of qbasic programs I developed to use in my hobbies and lo and behold, I can't print to my usb port. The programs run okay. I should think this is a problem that has been solved many times but I haven't run acrossed the answer. Perhaps print-to-file then open and print the file with notepad or something. Any ideas?
Thanks, Paul
reply: Try http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/dosprint.html
I had the same problem, & this works for me. Good luck. Jack
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