[PARPORT] Re: How to detect the status of the printer connected to parallel port??

From: Mirek Kwasniak (mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 05:56:26 EST

  • Next message: Archana Vasant Deshmukh: "[PARPORT] Re: How to detect the status of the printer connected to parallel port??"

    On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:04:06PM +0530, Archana Vasant Deshmukh wrote:
    > Hi All,
    >
    > I need to detect the status of the printer connected to the parellel port of Linux Machine(kernel 2.4.8),Redhat 6.2
    >
    > I have written a small application:

    Try tunelp program:

    # tunelp /dev/lp0 -s
    /dev/lp0 status is 216, on-line
    # tunelp /dev/lp0 -s
    /dev/lp0 status is 120, busy, out of paper, on-line

    Mirek

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