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  4. | Prg.name : CheckPrt   | | 
  5. | Date     : 05.05.1991 | *---------------------------*
  6. | Language : Modula 2   |/                           /|
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  8. |     ----  Copyright Tom Kroener                   | |                /|
  9. |    /(c)|            Richard Wagner Str. 40        | |               / |
  10. |   / TKs|            D-6602 Saarbruecken-Dudweiler | |              /  *
  11. |  / 1991|            GERMANY                       | *             /  /  
  12. | --------                                          |/             /  /
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  14. | CheckPrt is a freely distibutable program, but not public-domain| /
  15. | It may not be used in commercial products without my permission |/
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  17.  
  18.  
  19. CheckPrt is a little tool to check in a script-file if a printer is 
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  21. available.
  22.  
  23. So you save the long, long ,long , loooooong time it takes to show 
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  25. you the 'Printer trouble ....' Requester.
  26.  
  27. Here a little scriptfile, showing the usage :
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  30.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  31. |    failat 10   ; CheckPrt returns 10 if there is no printer available  |
  32. |                  and 0 is there is one                                 |
  33. |    CheckPrt                                                            |
  34. |    IF warn                                                             |
  35. |        echo " Sorry, there is no printer available "                   |
  36. |        echo " "                                                        |
  37. |    ELSE                                                                |
  38. |        echo " You are a winner. Your printer seems to be available"    |
  39. |        echo " "                                                        |
  40. |    ENDIF                                                               |
  41.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  42.  
  43. ATTENTION :
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  45.         CheckPrt only works with printers using the parallel-port of
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  47.         your Amiga. !!!!
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  50. I've tested CheckPrt with 3 different kind of printers without any
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  52. trouble.
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  54. If something's going wrong, if you have any  criticism, error-reports, 
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  56. gifts or something else write to
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  58.  
  59.             Tom Kroener
  60.             Richard Wagner Str. 40
  61.             D-6602 SB-Dudweiler
  62.             GERMANY
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  66.  
  67. So long
  68.         --- Tom
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