Hi Herman,

Thank a lot for your advise and help. I will look into it.
BTW, have you tried to use it with VFP, if so, can you
sent me a copy of your code for reference.



>>Hi,
>>
>>On this issue, I facing the same problem of getting status from the printer.
>>This is especially problematic for me since my application is a kiosk application. If only we had some solution to this issue. I be glad and
>>save me some sleepless night. I am not getting much help on my OPOS
>>driver. If you know anything about it, please advise. Thank you
>>
>
>Virusim,
>If you want to get a real status for printer, you have to bypass windows protection. This way you will get access permission to hardware directly (input/output or I/O). But it also means you have to use a low level language (C/C++/VC/ASM or maybe Delphi also can do it). Because in order to bypass windows protection you have to create your own virtual driver (VXD - for Win9X, SYS for NT). And there is no other way.
>
>I do remember i gave you the address of one handy tools called WinIO. It can access all I/O port hardware directly! The WinIO also included the source file for creating the VXD and SYS file. But unintentionally I made a mistake by giving you the wrong address (www.internal.com).
>Please forgive me for that. This is the real one www.internals.com. So last time I missed the "s" at the end.
>
>Try it out, and once again I'm sorry.
>Regards