Printing from within C App Issue

[keithvb]

Using DJGPP in DOS shell under Win98.
The application is menu driven.

When I send lines to a printer

           fputs( string, printer);

nothing happens until I exit from my app. Then printing occurs perfectly.

Any idea what is holding up my printing?

 

[brudnakm]

keith,

You need to flush the output buffer. Use

fflush(printer)

Brudnakm

 

[keithvb]

Brudnakm,

Thanks for the response. I've tried

fflush(printer)

and it makes no difference.

I've done more digging/thinking abt the issue:
This is network printing.
If I wait abt 3 minutes the printing occurs even if I don't exit the app.

So:
I'm going to try creating the print routines as separate apps that I can call from my main app.

Think it'll work?

Keith