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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!access.usask.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!tilley
- From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
- Subject: Re: setdefaulttimeouts probs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.133525.12608@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1992Aug27.181821.10480@bnr.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 13:35:25 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In <1992Aug27.181821.10480@bnr.co.uk> th@bnr.co.uk (Tony Heskett) writes:
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- [...]
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- >A bit later, tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) writes:
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- >> The prep file I looked at only executed "setdefaulttimeouts" if
- >> the current "waittimeout" was less than 300 seconds. The default
- >> on most printers will be 30 seconds. Changing this default to
- >> 300 bypassed the problem.
-
- >I looked for this setdefaulttimeout command in the Transcript
- >s/w, got Mac to print to local disk (PS file) and checked there,
- >grepped through all the CAP procsets ... I could only find it
- >in the file in the Unix spool directory.
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- >So what gives ? Do I have to save a new procset, then change the
- >30 sec to 300 sec in there ? If so, could you p'raps point me in
- >the correct direction for instructions on how to do this ?
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- Print the following job.
-
- %!
- serverdict begin [your password goes here] exitserver
- statusdict begin
- defaulttimeouts
- % LaserWriter 7.1.1 only tries to reset waittimeout to 300 if it is less than 300.
- % Otherwise I would have left it at 30 seconds.
- % Time out jobs after 10 minutes so weird postscript won't hang the printer for hours.
- job manual wait
- 600 60 300 setdefaulttimeouts
- defaulttimeouts
- % an error will print the stack to we can have a look
- InvalidCommand
- end
-
- ... Richard
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