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- From: dowdy@suod.cs.colorado.edu (Stephen Dowdy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Attention Final Writer and ScalaMM users
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 06:33:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Message-ID: <4cnpf4$rgr@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
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- In article <4cn83r$r8g@sundog.tiac.net>, David Meyer <dmeyer@tiac.net> wrote:
- )Petri Nordlund (petrin@walrus.megabaud.fi) wrote:
- ...
- ): While printing a document, Final Writer can crash or mess up the output
- ): if its priority is lower than printer.device-task's priority. This happens
- ...
- )wording. Your program does things that the OS was not intended to do.
- )_YOU_ are changing the rules. Softwood and Scala followed the rules. It
- )is therefore incorrect to suggest that these programs have bugs due to
- )the conflict with your program. Bugs are errors in the programming.
-
- The way i read the FW statement above (and i haven't verified myself), is
- that FW has a *bug* irrespective of executive, since it is perfectly legal
- to modify the priority of a task relative to another (in most cases, and
- i don't see any reason this situation should cause problems).
-
- I suspect FW is at fault, because i know it already has printer bugs w.r.t
- GPFAX, where it will forcibly send a <FF> directly to the PAR: device
- after having sent the print job via printer.device, since the print data
- goes to GPFAX, but my printer ejects a page.
-
- --stephen
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