Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!utoddl From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Problems with close-printer-device on A3000 Message-ID: <1990Aug6.194910.21076@uncecs.edu> Date: 6 Aug 90 19:49:10 GMT References: <1164@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 30 In article <1164@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: >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. I sometimes get the same thing on my 1000 under 1.3.2 and ProWrite 3.0.1. Not often, though. I suspect something they are doing just marginally works and the 3000 is a little more sensitive to it (because of speed perhaps?). They told me no one else had reported the problem. They did send a very nice letter and seemed genuinely willing to help. They mentioned that 3.0.2 fixes the problems I'm having with 3.0.1. I hope they've fixed the printer problems too. I'm using 2.5 until they get 3.x worked out. I wonder what kind of test suite they used. >-- >Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com >BT Tymnet Tech Services | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms >PO Box 49019, MS-C41 | BIX: smithjoe | 12 PDP-10s still running! "POPJ P," >San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga speaks for me." Todd M. Lewis, utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu, utoddl@ecsvax.bitnet To quote Eugene H. Spafford, "Crisis and Aftermath", Communications of the ACM, vol. 32, no. 6, (June 1989), p. 684: "It is curious that this many people [...] would assume to know the intent of the author based on the observed behavior of the program."