Problem Printing...

[martindavey]

Could you maybe tell me what I am doing wrong here??

I am trying to print direct to the printer in W98 using MS Visual C++ am getting no errors opening the stream (My printer is known as lpt1 on my system) but no printer activity is witnessed.

I know in C, W98 makes it next to impossible to print directly but am learning C++ and my course work says it should work as below but it does not.

Any suggestions would be great!

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
// tried ofstream no change
fstream Print;

// tried &quot;LPT1&quot; no change
Print.open(&quot;lpt1&quot;,ios:ut);

// function returns 1 hence stream opened ok
if(!Print.is_open())
{
cout<<&quot;Error Opening File, Program Aborted&quot;;
exit 1;
}

// WHY WHY WHY BOOHOOOHOO

http://WWWWHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Print<<&quot;WHY DOESNT THIS PRINT!\n&quot;;

return 0;
}