How can I send the null character to the printer?

[Andreas Kaiser]

`t BM> In order to define some downloadable characters for my dot matrix printer,
 BM> I have to send it a series of character values encoding the bit patterns
 BM> for the new characters.  Some of those encoded values are zero.  Of course
 BM> if I send a string like "\x00\x20\xF3" to stdprn with a function like
 BM> fputs, nothing gets sent, because the first \x00 is interpreted as the
 BM> end of the string.

Make your own 'fputs', using 'putc'. 'putc' should transmit ANY code (unless you 
operate in text mode on a PC running MSDOS :-).

                Gruss, Andreas

 
 

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