Re: Readfile hangs while trying to read the response from printer

From:

hari <haricibi83@gmail.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc, microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

Date:

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:28:51 -0800 (PST)

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On Jan 11, 10:32 pm, "Sam Hobbs"
<sam...@social.rr.com_change_social_to_socal> wrote:

You can also use asynchronous/overlapped IO and then wait for input, but y=

can do other things in addition to wait.

The printer driver probably has a way to determine if input is available,
but you must refer to the documentation; we don't know what the
documentation for your printer driver says.

"hari" <haricib...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:722ce690-2dde-4acd-ad74-93b772f9cec7@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...

Hi all,
Im trying to send a comamnd to the printer and read the
response for it thru parallel port(LPT1:). The write file always
succeeds, but in readfile it goes to hanging state. I have given my
code below.

int g;
HANDLE h;
DWORD NumberOfBytesWritten,NumberOfBytesRead;
unsigned char buff1[12];
unsigned char buff_read[30];

h = CreateFile("LPT1:",
GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE=

                      FILE_SHARE_READ,
                      NULL,
                      OPEN_ALWAYS,
                      FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL |
                      FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN,
                      NULL);
if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
  g= 0;
  return 0;
}
else
{

g=1;
  buff1[0] = '{';
  buff1[1] = 'W';
  buff1[2] = 'B';
  buff1[3] = '|';
  buff1[4] = '}';

i = WriteFile(h,buff1,5,&NumberOfBytesWritten ,NULL);
i =ReadFile(h,buff_read,2,&NumberOfBytesRead,NULL);
CloseHandle(h);
return 400;
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Th problem is,if the printer driver is installed in LPT1: and if we
are trying to do readfile from other application in LPT1.It goes to
hanging state

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