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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Determining if a printer is available
Message-ID: <451@atlas.tegra.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 15:07:11 GMT
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Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA
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In-reply-to: sar@datcon.UUCP's message of 28 Mar 89 20:04:12 GMT


Try sending a character yourself (easiest in asm) to the printer and
watching the ready line.  I haven't done this exactly and I haven't
worked a parallel printer lately so I don't remember the exact name of
the "ready" or "busy" line.  You could send a CR or LF or maybe a NUL
or just whatever your first character is....

Hope this helps....

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