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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Printer Timeouts/BIOS/MS-DOS 3.3
Keywords: Printer, BIOS, MS-DOS, Timeouts
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.174317.25070@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Jul 90 17:43:17 GMT
References: <1945@trlluna.trl.oz>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1945@trlluna.trl.oz> p.campbell@trl.oz.au (Peter Campbell) writes:
>
>Hello, all.  Here at the Research Labs we are having a problem with
>MS-DOS printer timeouts, and I was wondering if anyone out there could
>help us.
... rest deleted for brevity ...

The term timeout is somewhat misleading here, since, as far as I
understand, it is rather retry attempts than a fixed timeout.  The
default number of retrys before giving up trying to print is 20. 
This default is a feature of the PC, not the printer.  It can be
changed by memory address programming, and personally I have scaled
the retrys down to 3 times only.  If you want the utility to do this
it is called SETPRT.EXE and it is contained in /pc/ts/tsutld17.arc
package (but no source code available).  The package can be obtained
by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland. 

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