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- From: hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Checking if the printer is ready for input...?
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- Date: 8 Nov 92 14:24:32 GMT
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- marco@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (John Perry) writes:
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- >How can I check to see if the printer is ready for input? I tried using
- >Bcostat(), but it returns -1 (which is supposed to mean I can send the
- >printer data) even when the printer was turned off!
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- This is weird as it should work. I always use Bcostat() for this and never had
- any problems. You may try to use Cprnos() instead (Gemdos 17) - returns -1
- if the printer is ready to receive data, 0 otherwise.
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