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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Checking if the printer is ready for input.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.183608.25428@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:36:08 GMT
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- In article 1uewTB2w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca, marco@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (John Perry) writes:
- >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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- John, I seem to remember having the same trouble on occasion with Bcostat() and I
- believe I avoided that with Cprnos() which is GEMDOS(17) that checks the status
- of the parallel port. You might give that a try.
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