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Just send the @#$%&* characters out the LPT1 port!!
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14/11/1998 20:01:57
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00157589
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Peter,

There may be an API call you can make to check the current printer status and poll that every so often.

>But I do have one issue remaining. I would like the program to stop running if the printer hangs. If I turn off spooling to my test printer and send output with "???", I get the message:
>
>Error Accessing Printer Spooler
>
>I'm going to allow the operator to restart printing at a given point so it's not a big deal if the program fills up the windows spool buffer. I'll need to instruct them how to kill the spool file before restarting.
df (was a 10 time MVP)

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