I have a printer that works in Olivetti PR2 emulation. It is connected to COM4 port on Windows.
Following commands work from Windows CLI.
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set /p x="some text" <nul >\\.\COM4
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type somefile.txt >\\.\COM4
Is there a possibility to "emulate" commands above, since printer than works in native mode and not (very slow and nonflexible) graphics mode when I print it via Print library in PB? Can I use StartPrinting() function with some "native" mode for such dot-matrix printers?
BTW, i CANNOT access COM4 port from PB's commands...
Thank you in advance,
Bruno
Edit: I tried something like this, but compiler crushes...
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txt.s = "0123456789"
hndl.i = CreateFile_("\\.\COM4", #GENERIC_ALL, #FILE_SHARE_READ, #Null, #OPEN_EXISTING, #Null, #Null)
WriteFile_(hndl, @txt, Len(txt), #Null, #Null)
CloseHandle_(hndl)
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: PureBasic_Compilation0.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5ad88724
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.23915
Fault Module Timestamp: 59b94f2a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000001b54
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1050
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Solution
http://www.purebasic.fr/german/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1152