I have a text file called (located) c:\text.out
What is/Is there a command for sending the textfile to the printer.
Hopefully its something simple like   print(text.out)    :)

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Write (Lst, variablename,'Text you want to print');

The 'Lst' is a variable declared by the printer unit, and is associated
with LPT1, your printer port.  Try that, and tell me how it went :)

Jay Knight
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http://jhknight.nexus.olemiss.edu
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var TxtFile : text;
     Buffer : string;

begin
        Assign(TxtFile,'c:\text.out');
            {$I-} Reset(TxtFile); {$I+}

        if IOResult = 0 then
           begin
                while not eof(TxtFile) do
                        begin
                           ReadLn(TxtFile,Buffer);
                           WriteLn(lst,Buffer);
                        end;

                        close(TxtFile);
               end;
 end.

uses
  printer;

var
  myfile : text;
   tempstr : String;

begin
  Assign(myfile,'text.out');
  Reset(myfile);
   repeat
      Readln(myfile, tempstr);
      writeln(lst,tempstr);
    until (eof(myfile));
   Close(myfile);
end.

What I usually do is,

  program myprog;
  var
    f: text;
  begin
    assign(f,'prn:');
    rewrite(f);
    writeln(f,'Hello world!');
    close(f);
  end.

In other words, it takes just three lines (assign, rewrite, and close)
to use my own file for the printer, instead of using "lst" as provided
by the printer unit.  Perhaps these three lines are all that is in the
printer unit?

In fact, more often, I don't even do that.  I just do this:

  program myprog;
  begin
    writeln('Hello world!');
  end.

And then, at the DOS prompt, I write,

  myprog > prn:

This gives me flexibility, for example I can type,

  myprog > results.txt

and then later, if I want,

  copy results.txt prn

I hope this helps.

Maybe he just wants to learn how to print for future programming tasks?
God knows that I have no use for the door game I wrote when I was
learning Pascal that gets a random number, and gives the user 6 guesses.
But it taught me about random numbers, variables, sending output to the
user, retreiving user input, for/while loops, if..then..else statements,
and on and on.

Has your mentality swerved so much that you can't accept that a newbie
might not know as much about Pascal as you do?

Keep in mind that there was a time when you, too were still learning.