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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: lp1 timeout errors
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.140515.9544@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:05:15 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.232231.22241@athena.mit.edu> <C-AMB.92Aug25101425@solitude.math.utah.edu> <1992Aug26.043317.17003@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- In article <1992Aug26.043317.17003@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams ) writes:
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- | I think that the proper cure for this problem is to get rid of the timeout code
- | altogether (that's what I do). If your printer runs out of paper in the middle
- | of a print with the timeout as is you only have the duration of the timeout in
- | which to replenish the paper or the print gets aborted and you have to start
- | again. This is a real pain with documents that have more pages than your
- | hopper size.
-
- I believe Peter is perfectly correct here. Trying to fix the problem
- by making the timeout larger is like fixing a lack of memory by adding
- more memory instead of fixing the memory leak. It puits off the problem
- but doesn't solve it.
-
- | It is my intention (when I get time and I understand device drivers) to propose
- | a permanent solution to this problem. Possible enhancements involve examining the
- | returned signals for information such as "out of paper" that most printers send
- | as well as just the "printer busy" code.
-
- Sounds good to me, I just dug out an old Epson for my Linux box, which
- is getting built out of hand-me-down parts from other systems as they
- get upgraded. The BBS just got a better serial card, so Linux doesn't
- have to switch one port between the mouse and modem anymore, and I have
- a printer port now. A drive which see out-of-paper would be nice, since
- I'm feeding around another printer and the paper jams more than I wound
- like.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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