>>>>PRINTSTATUS()does not work under Windows as it used to under MSDOS. Is there anyway that I can detect from a VFP9 application if a user has a printer attached AND SWITCHED ON on LPT1? At the moment if the printer is not attached or switched on the app just hangs.
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>>>>Thanks
>>>>Barry Sutton
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>>>Not really. Under Windows, the printer is attached to a spooler which is always on, no matter if the printer is turned on or not.
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>>Fred,
>>Thanks for confirming that. Is there anyway to set up a timeout against the spooler so that I can avoid a hanging app in this circumstance?
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>>Barry.
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>Neither situation should "hang". The only thing I've ever seen is that if no printer is defined at all, that can cause problems.
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>You should be able to use SET("PRINTER",2) and if it's EMPTY() there is no printer installed.

Fred,
Sorry, my fault, I did not explain it properly: I am printing to a dot matrix printer from a text file I have created, and using CopyFile to do the business.

DECLARE INTEGER CopyFile IN KERNEL32.DLL ;
	   STRING @SourceFileName, ;
	   STRING @DestFileName, ;
	   INTEGER bFailIfExists
	
	CopyFile("c:\temp\holdprint.prn","lpt1",0)

If the printer is not attached or switched off, the app hangs.

Is there a DOS function that I could RUN to detect the presence/absence of a printer on LPT1?

Regards
Barry.