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- From: sdm91r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stuart Maclean)
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- Subject: Re: Printer Source
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 11:09:26 GMT
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- In <RKOHLBUS.9.0@jennifer.umd.edu> RKOHLBUS@jennifer.umd.edu (Robert C. Kohlbus) writes:
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- > I'm looking for some good source code on how to handle writing to a
- >printer that does error checking and code on how to check to see if the
- >printer is off line or out of paper. Any help would be great and as a side
- >note I'm using Borland C++ 3.1 in dos environment (5.0).
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- I've done a bit of that myself. I can remember that there are no printer code
- standards whatsoever, so each different printer responds with its own codes.
- In effect, some of your code is hard wired to a specific printer. Even the
- Out of Paper bit isn't standardised if I recall.
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- Stuart.
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