>Hi friends,
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>I need to send the contents of a text file to a parallel port so that it goes directly to the printer. I tried with the Windows API function COPYFILE, it works great at copying files to diferent locations but when I try to 'copy' a file to a port (for example LPT1) it doesn't work although the documentation that I found in UT for this function explains that I can do it. However when I try it returns the code 0 that means that an error occurred and nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong? Is there any other way to do it? I tried with VFP'S COPY FILE but it doesn't work either. Now I am doing it with RUN through DOS but the black window that appears is very annoying and the users don't like it. Any help would be very appreciatted.
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>Luis Guerra

Luis,

I am currently wrestling with the CopyFile API also. If you are going to LPT1, make sure you use a : at the end. So it should be LPT1:

Kind Regards,

Mat