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LitusSaxonicum
Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 2388 Location: Yateley, Hants, UK
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:50 am Post subject: Just connecting to LPT1 |
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Programming in Fortran isn't my "day job". I've just written an application using the FTN95pe (it's fixed format FTN77, so I also compile it with FTN77 etc) to replace something that used to run fine in DOS, but won't run nicely in a DOS box (no ANSI, and output to a plotter on LPT1 is buffered, so the plotter goes in fits and starts). All I want to do now is to squirt some HPGL commands directly from my application to a plotter connected to LPT1. (HPGL commands are a two-letter mnemonic, followed by a variety of numeric parameters). Everything else works.
If I open a file, using say:
OPEN (99, FILE='Lineprinter.plt', STATUS='UNKNOWN')
Then the plotter commands work fine.
If instead, I open as follows:
OPEN(99,FILE='LPT1:')
then the program gets to this step, and exits immediately, closing all CLEARWIN windows. The FTN95 documentation states explicitly that this should work (although the example uses Unit , and makes absolutely no qualifications about it.
Using my own routines for generating HPGL saves me from having to think, although they never get to execute is the program crashes on the OPEN.
Any advice would be helpful.
Eddie Bromhead
Kingston University
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LitusSaxonicum
Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 2388 Location: Yateley, Hants, UK
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject: Just connecting to LPT1 |
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... well, I moved it to a different PC, which doesn't have a NOVELL NETWARE binding, and it works. Not a Salford problem, not an Eddie B. problem, just another example things working at home but not at my Uni.
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