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From: bseeg@spectra.COM (Bob Seegmiller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Printer status in TP
Keywords: Printer, BIOS INT 17h
Message-ID: <306@spectra.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 90 20:29:19 GMT
References: <50540@bu.edu.bu.edu>
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In article <50540@bu.edu.bu.edu> tasos@cs.bu.edu (Anastasios Kotsikonas) writes:
>
>I was wondering how I could get the printer status (on/off atc.) from within
>TP. I would appreciate any help on this and I thank the repliers in advance.
>
>Tasos
>
>Internet: tasos@cs.bu.edu

Use BIOS INT 17h (printer services).  You'll need a reference manual on
the BIOS and DOS services, and the rest (calling BIOS interrupts) should
be documented in your TP manual.

Best of luck.
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