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Re: fopen cannot open device name for network printer in windows xp
- From: "Bengt-Arne Fjellner" <Bengt-Arne dot Fjellner at ltu dot se>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:07:46 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: fopen cannot open device name for network printer in windows xp
- References: <20050923123423.59754.qmail@web33907.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
The One skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I've a c program that prints to network printer by
> getting a filehandle from
> fopen("\\computer1\printer1", "wb"). That has always
Try with:
fopen("\\\\computer1\\printer1", "wb").
Instead.
> worked on Windows 95, 98 & 2000.
>
> When it's running under windows xp (sp1 or sp2), fopen
> returns a NULL. Has any one had a similar problem? Is
> there a solution to this?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
>
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Bengt-Arne Fjellner
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