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- From: Neil Brooks <Brooks@EXETER.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: mysterious print.tmp
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- In-Reply-To: <received 17 Aug 92 04:29:20 via uk.ac.earn-relay>; from "Buford
- Norman" at Aug 16, 92 11:00 pm
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- Buford Norman writes:-
- >
- > Has anyone using NB3 figured out why you get a flash of a "file print.tmp
- > not found" message, or something like that, as BN finishes exporting a
- > file to ASCII? It has only been a nuisance so far, but tonight a file was
- > still printing while I exported a file, and whatever occasions the message
- > about print.tmp apparently confused the printer--sent it into a perpetual
- > form feed and I had to reboot.
- The reason this happens is that the export feature uses the printing
- mechanism of NB. The print.tmp message is just the export feature deleting
- a non-existant file BUT you got caught when print.tmp was being used by your
- print.
- This kind of conflict happens when people do not realise what the
- software is doing behind the screen and the software has not been written
- to avoid side-effects.
- --
- Neil Brooks, University of Exeter Computer Unit
- Electronic mail: Brooks@uk.ac.exeter
- Phone: (+44) 392 263946
- Postal Address: Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QE, Devon, U.K.
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