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From: r1marg@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Timothy Margush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Printer Error
Summary: How to eliminate device timeout error
Keywords: timeout error basic
Message-ID: <591@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Date: 21 Aug 90 21:04:31 GMT
Reply-To: r1marg@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Timothy Margush)
Organization: U of Akron Computer Center, Ohio
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I have a simple basic program that prints a report.  If the printer goes off-
line (out of paper or manually) the program halts with an error message 
indicating a device timeout error occurred after about 1 minute.  Can I
eliminate this error without using the on error facility of basic?