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- From: petrin@walrus.megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Executive, GPfax and Final Writer
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 12:56:35 +0200
- Organization: Megabaud Oy,Helsinki,Finland
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- Jim Johnson (Chronos@gate.UUCP) writes:
- > I just ran into an interesting conflict with Final Writer and GPFax when
- >using Executive. If I just went to print a document with FW then all is well,
- >but if I bring up GPfax and try to create a fax then the system locks up.
- >
- > After much trial and error I traced it down to Executive. Further testing
- >revealed it to be 2 sub tasks of FW being scheduled too low.
-
- Actually, there's a bug in Final Writer. If the main task's priority
- is lower than printer.device-task's, FW crashes.
-
- I said this is a bug in Final Writer, because it's nowhere guaranteed
- that printer.device-task's priority will always be 0.
-
- > The solution is to set Executives preferences to "NOSCHEDULE" on tasks
- >beginning with "FW*". The main program of Final Writer shows up on the task list
- >as "Finalwriter" and can be scheduled.
-
- If that works, then ok, but you can also set printer.device so that
- it's not scheduled, and its priority is kept below FinalWriter's
- priority:
-
- TASK printer.device NOSCHEDULE BELOW
-
- will do the trick.
-
- This problem was discussed here a while ago. All the known problems/
- solutions that are not yet listed in the Common problems-section of
- Executive documentation can be found from Executive WWW-page:
-
- http://www.megabaud.fi/~petrin/Executive.html
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- Petri Nordlund __/// petrin@megabaud.fi
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