print in turing?

[hey_joe42]

can your print in turing?
if so how, i tried one method but didn't work and too confusing
and seemed like it only would do one string variable a page, like not many

[Dan]

this shode help:

http://www.compsci.ca/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=11

[hey_joe42]

i went to that file and tried using it, like it should work, my printer is on lpt1 but it doesn't print, there are no errors, dataout = 1, and yeah
does it not work on like new computers, cuz i used to have an old tandy and i could definitly see it working with one of those computer and printer,but this one i just can't see it like have a direct connection with the printer, you'd think the print dialogue box would have to open, anyways i just tried using the program they had there the example one and it doesn't work for me, anyone know why?

[Tony]

i have a feeling that this would work only with serial printers... so if your printer is connected via USB or on a network, there might be a problem

[Asok]

Well the obvious problem could actually be in your printer config, try just printing something ie word/paint. if that doesn't work then we've isolated your problem.

[hey_joe42]

It works when i print something from word and paint

[hey_joe42]

im looking for another way to print the one i have decided upon but isn't good enough is well creating the document you want to print in turing 4.01 or whatever version has a print button, and then hitting hte print button on the run windows' menu
but that isn't a good command, any one know another better way which would work on a network printer

[Tony]

write output to a file and print that file through another program such as word or even notepad.

after writing to a file, you can open up that file using Sys.Exec but it needs to have a proper extension (such as .txt for notepad or .doc for word)