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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP printer check
Keywords: TP
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.054106.6362@uwasa.fi>
Date: 28 Nov 89 05:41:06 GMT
References: <438@hazel13.UUCP>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
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Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <438@hazel13.UUCP> sirakide@cell.mot.COM (Dean Sirakides) writes:
>Does anyone know a nice simple, clean way to determine
>if a printer is on line and ready before issuing
>a writeln(lst,) statement.
>Its a drag getting a device time out error at run time.

I just posted information about the updated tspas16.arc TP units
collection.  It includes a PRTONLFN function for this purpose. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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