LPT timeout trapping?

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From: Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:27

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Hello.

I'm doing a fprintf (stdprn,...) in program. The only problem is that if the
printer isn't on-line, I get this annoying message on the screen. The message
is annoying because my program is a screen oriented program.

Is there any way to trap this fault so that my program can display the message
(or my own message) on the screen when this happen? I've been looking in the
FAQ, but could not find it.

I'm programming in C (MS 5.1) under DOS 5.0 on a 386/33 if that helps.

Thanks in advance.

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