Finding a printer; need help

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Finding a printer; need help
\ Deane.Rothenmaier (7 May 2008)
. \ Campbell, Scott (7 May 2008)
. . \ Deane.Rothenmaier (7 May 2008)
. . . \ John W Kennedy (7 May 2008)

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Subject:	Finding a printer; need help
Group:	Activeperl
From:	Deane.Rothenmaier
Date:	7 May 2008

Gurus,

Anybody know of a Perl module that can tell me 1. If there's a printer
physically connected to a parallel (or serial) port on a PC and, 2. what
printer it is? I've got a project that wants this info, and I've pretty
much gotten nowhere trying to use WMI (unless I've missed something). In
one instance, it (WMI) identifies seven printers connected to LPT1:, and
says that all of them are in "Idle" status. Anybody want to assess the
accuracy of that result? I know, it's just reading the registry (I
think); so the information I need must be elsewhere.

True confession time: I'm at a loss here, and in need of your guidance.

Thanks!!!!!!!

Deane Rothenmaier
Programmer/Analyst
Walgreens Corp.
847-914-5150

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -- Mark
Twain

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