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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: Programming Question
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 18:45:40 EDT
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In article <1989@gryphon.CTS.COM> mrandall@pnet02.CTS.COM (Mark Randall) writes:
> 
>My company is developing a program for several Fortune 500 type corps...
> 
>...We need to intercept these error conditions before intuition jumps in with
>the requester since we are not shipping the [computer] with a mouse... 

If you ever are running a situation where the may be no way for a requester
to get answered, you need a little PD program called "Cancel!".  This will
have the same effect as if the user pressed the "Cancel" gadget.  DOS
and printer requesters will no longer disable the machine.

This program is probably on a Fish disk somewhere... check your local dealer.
(I'll mail a copy to the poster of this question)

(-: Or you could just have them press "<C=><B>" (The Commodore key and "B") :-)

I do not have an answer for your question of detecting printer status
via PRT: without the 30 second wait.  Perhaphs the wait is tuneable? (nah...
doubt it)


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