[REBOL] Re: Printing with Rebol on Windows network
From: al:bri:xtra at: 22-Aug-2002 19:44
Andrew wrote:
> > Note that Windows printers require CR and LF to be sent for the end of
line; newline. If you must print directly from Rebol, you'll need to
replace/all of the newline values in your text with these values.
Louis wrote:
> How are you doing this?
At the moment, by doing something like this:
Pages: rejoin [
; A whole lot of lines...
"Blah blah blah..." newline
"^(page)" ; Page feed code.
; A whole lot of lines...
"Blah blah blah..." newline
"^(page)" ; Page feed code.
]
; Rebol converts 'newline to CRLF automatically in 'write.
write %Test.txt Pages
; ...and then print to printer:
write/binary %//prn read/binary %Test.txt
I'm using the above method at the moment, because I'm still testing and
writing reports. A better method that doesn't use the temporary file is
something like:
replace/all Pages newline CRLF
write/binary %//prn Pages
Caution: I haven't tested the above script!
Brian wrote:
> write/with %somefile "somedata" "^M^/"
I hadn't thought of that method. That's a good method if one's using a
non-windows PC on the network.
> or you could use "^(0D)^(0A)", it means the same thing.
Rebol has defined CRLF as:
>> crlf
== "^M^/"
I hope that helps!
Andrew Martin
ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/
