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From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Reading the printer status
Message-ID: <151821@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 6 Nov 90 09:06:48 GMT
References: <90309.090232F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <90309.090232F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>, F0O@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>     I work at a lab where I write data collection programs for students.  I
> don't know how many times I've had a student come to me and say 'Tim, your
> program isn't working', only to find that the problem is a device timeout
> error.  The student(or faculty) forgot to put the printer online.
>     Is there any way of checking to see if the printer is online, and if
> it's not, put it online by software control?
> 
>                                                         [Tim]

Someone posted a Turbo Prolog programme to do just that some time ago 
on this group or a closely related one as I remember. Also, I seem to 
remember Prof. T. Salmi replying to it and showing that there was an 
easier way to do it.  Our mailer and news have been a bit problematic 
of late and I can't find these messages on our system.  Maybe someone 
else remembers them and has access to them still.

John Garland

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