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From: glenn@hpldola.HP.COM (Glenn Sisson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Avoiding ^P (was Re: Avoiding ^C)
Message-ID: <9950002@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 90 00:41:06 GMT
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The ^P "MKS korn shell" vs "toggle-printing" problem has caused me anger
too.  Unfortunately I don't know how to turn of the "toggle-printer"
functionality.  I noticed that slow ^P typing will cause no problem, but
high speed ^P'ing will cause the printer to toggle on.

My quick and dirty band-aid (on my T1000SE laptop) was to use the PCKwik
spooler from Multisoft (it came with the laptop).  It seemed to be the
easiest spooler to deal with when fighting the ^P problem.  It brings up
a popup banner when it can't output to the printer, and I can then type
another couple quick ^P keystokes from ksh to toggle off the printer,
then use the pop-up screen to empty the spoolers buffer and continue.
This is not the best solution, but at least allows recovery from the
problem when no printer is hooked up (I've never had one hooked up to my
laptop anyway).

I found on my table-top 286 PC that at 16 MHz, I can type ^P very fast
and the printer seldom toggles on.  (I also run the spooler on this PC
too.)

So far, I can live with this semi-solution.  I've been meaning to look
into a real solution, but the pain level is fairly low now.

--- glenn