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- From: bbaghan@wonder.ca (Brendan Bhagan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Attention Final Writer and ScalaMM users
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:19:53 GMT
- Organization: WCi Information Technology Division
- Message-ID: <1817.6582T1169T882@wonder.ca>
- References: <4cnpf4$rgr@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
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- Brendan Bhagan
-
- Email BBaghan@wonder.ca
-
- A1200
- 50 mhz 030/882
- 10 mb ram
- 540 mb hard drive
- CD-rom Drive
-
-
- >In article <4cn83r$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
- >--
- >Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - CS Dept - Univ of Colorado, Boulder
- >dowdy@cs.colorado.edu - 303-492-6196 - http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~dowdy/
- >The Seven Dirty Words: Senator Exon, Senator Coats, Communications Decency
- >Act "Team Spam Forever" (A division of Beatrice) { NO cold Sales Calls !!!
- >}
-
-
- But do not forget Softwood is working on bug fixes and releaseing free updates/bug fixes to registered
- users. I called about the same prob and the next week they sent me 4.01 patch and now 4.02
- which fixed some bugs ( but made others )
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