>>I seem to recall there is a way to detect a "printer ready" in FPW2.6. PRINTSTATUS() always returns .T. and SYS(13) always returns "READY". I need to send a CHR(7) to LPT1 to trigger a gate mechanism but if there is no printer on-line on the port I get a "Printer Driver Corrupted" error followed by various other unpleasent messages and finally losing my mouse cursor and having to re-boot - WEIRD !!!
>>Any suggestions?
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>Have you looked at message #231038 .It doesn't look good.

Evan:
Thanks for pointing me to that message. I had sort of realised that was the problem. I've found a small assembler routine that can be called as a BIN file that checks the hardware directly. Going to try this when I get around to it.