/* $OpenBSD: lib_print.c,v 1.2 1997/12/03 05:21:27 millert Exp $ */ /*************************************************************************** * COPYRIGHT NOTICE * **************************************************************************** * ncurses is copyright (C) 1992-1995 * * Zeyd M. Ben-Halim * * zmbenhal@netcom.com * * Eric S. Raymond * * esr@snark.thyrsus.com * * * * Permission is hereby granted to reproduce and distribute ncurses * * by any means and for any fee, whether alone or as part of a * * larger distribution, in source or in binary form, PROVIDED * * this notice is included with any such distribution, and is not * * removed from any of its header files. Mention of ncurses in any * * applications linked with it is highly appreciated. * * * * ncurses comes AS IS with no warranty, implied or expressed. * * * ***************************************************************************/ #include #include MODULE_ID("Id: lib_print.c,v 1.8 1996/12/21 14:24:06 tom Exp $") int mcprint(char *data, int len) /* ship binary character data to the printer via mc4/mc5/mc5p */ { char *mybuf, *switchon; size_t onsize, offsize, res; errno = 0; if (!prtr_non && (!prtr_on || !prtr_off)) { errno = ENODEV; return(ERR); } if (prtr_non) { switchon = tparm(prtr_non, len); onsize = strlen(switchon); offsize = 0; } else { switchon = prtr_on; onsize = strlen(prtr_on); offsize = strlen(prtr_off); } if ((mybuf = malloc(onsize + len + offsize + 1)) == (char *)NULL) { errno = ENOMEM; return(ERR); } (void) strcpy(mybuf, switchon); memcpy(mybuf + onsize, data, len); if (offsize) (void) strcpy(mybuf + onsize + len, prtr_off); /* * We're relying on the atomicity of UNIX writes here. The * danger is that output from a refresh() might get interspersed * with the printer data after the write call returns but before the * data has actually been shipped to the terminal. If the write(2) * operation is truly atomic we're protected from this. */ res = write(cur_term->Filedes, mybuf, onsize + len + offsize); /* * By giving up our scheduler slot here we increase the odds that the * kernel will ship the contiguous clist items from the last write * immediately. */ (void) sleep(0); free(mybuf); return(res); }