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