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Subject: Re: All I need is the <directive(s)>

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:21:37 01/09/03

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On January 09, 2003 at 10:44:26, Joshua Haglund wrote:

>On January 09, 2003 at 05:10:08, Joshua Haglund wrote:
>
>>I would like to print the output of a chess engine directly from the engine.
>>
>>Say for example:
>>
>>Crafty implemented the ability to print to a printer.
>>
>>
>>Crafty v20.1 (1 cpus)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>White(1): board
>>
>>
>>
>>   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    8  | *R|   |   |   |   |   | *K|   |
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    7  | B | *P|   |   |   | *P| *P| *P|
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    6  |   |   | *N| *P|   |   | *Q|   |
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    5  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    4  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    3  | P |   |   |   |   | Q |   |   |
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    2  |   | P | P |   |   | P | P | P |
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>    1  | R |   |   |   | *R|   | K |   |
>>       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>         a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h
>>
>>
>>
>>White(1): print
>>
>>Looking for printer...
>>
>>BJC-4304 found...
>>
>>Printing...
>>Page 1 of 1
>>Done.
>>
>>White(1):
>>
>>Now the board above would have printed too my printer.
>>
>>I want to do this in C++ though. I've looked everywhere and even asked an
>>instructor(bad) how to accomplish this?
>>
>>No clue.
>>
>>Looking for some help,
>>
>>Joshua
>>toneewa@yahoo.com
>
>#include <iostream>
>What else?


open a stream to your printer device.  If it is a network printer you have a
_lot_ of work
to do.  Even if it isn't, you have to deal with different types of printers.  I
would use the
html output code in Crafty and then figure out how to execute a process that can
print html.



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