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From: rico@oscvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Programming Question
Message-ID: <522@oscvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 23:15:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 24 23:15:31 1987
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References: <1989@gryphon.CTS.COM> <4508@zen.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <4508@zen.berkeley.edu> bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>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)

The time for the delay is decided by the printer driver (it's part of the
printertag at the start of the driver).  There isn't any way to change it
after the fact unless the driver implements some special escape sequence
that does it.

You might be able to get better feedback by asking the parallel.device or
serial.device directly.

	-Rico

PS.  I'm wondering how far my postings are actually getting:  Bryce, if you
     ever see this could you send me some mail...
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