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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Problems with close-printer-device on A3000
Summary: ProWrite can't cancel printing
Message-ID: <1164@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 90 01:28:26 GMT
References: <dillon.4830@overload.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <dillon.4830@overload.UUCP> dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    There are indeed problems running uucico on the A3000 (UUCP 1.06D).  I am
>    attempting to find the bug (several of you are helping me trace it,
>    thanks!).  One bug Darrin Hyrup has traced to
>    somewhere around the close-serial-device/open-serial-device calls
>    used to terminate the call at the end.

On what I believe is a related note: I called New Horizons to tell them I
have problems with ProWrite version 3.0 running on an A3000.  If I select
"cancel" while it is printing, the program hangs.  The mouse pointer stays
as a round clock, and ProWrite does not respond to menu events.  They say
that this problem only shows up with the OS being shipped with the current
batch of A3000's.  I have my printer on the serial port, others have it on
their parallel port, and both cases hang while trying to close the printer
after aborting the I/O.
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