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About Alex Barry
Expertise
I have been a qbasic programmer since 2000, creating games, minor libraries and various small programs. I have experience using interrupts, graphics, file input/output, the mouse cursor, and using libraries. I have also learned FreeBASIC, c/c++, python, php and html.
I do not claim to be an absolute authority in any language, but I don't mind looking things up and learning with you.

Experience
Hobby programming since 2000

I no longer belong to any community programming groups, but do have knowledge of *basic dialects and C/C++

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Qbasic, Quickbasic - Status Bit from serial port

Expert: Alex Barry - 3/24/2009

Question
Hi,

I was wondering if you could help. I am using DOS for a EPoS application and I need to know how to get the status bit for my printer.

To active the status I send the following command

PRINT #1, CHR$(&H10);CHR$(&H4);CHR$(1); ( this tells the printer to transit the status)

BUT I can not figure out how to get the software to accept the status and action it.

any advice would be great

Answer
Hi, Andy,

I can see what you are doing, but I think to help you, I'll need to see all of your code.

You can send it to me by email: alex [.=DOT/.] barry [.=AT/.] gmail.com

If you can't do that, you can post it on http://rafb.net/pastebin and send me the link here as a followup question.

Thanks,
-Alex

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