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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wb2 questions, ECS Denise
Message-ID: <663@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 90 09:14:54 GMT
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In article <1990Dec20.131346.23479@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
>
>BTW, have you fixed the printer driver feature that makes the
>requester for the printer being off line take so long to come up? I
>haven't tested this yet.

This is really a "feature". The timeout is a constant defined by
the writer of the driver program and is a fixed value. In most
cases they chose the recommended value of 1 minute.

But I as well already was in a situation where I found this
annoying. Perhaps one could put this into the printer preferences?

I think another solution that comes to my mind is not real possible:
to let the printer driver open a little window on Workbench with
a cancel gadget and a wording "printing in progress", where you
may cancel the output at any moment. But what if Workbench was 
closed?

The timeout value is placed among the very first bytes in a
printer driver. If you take out the RKMs, it shouldn't be too
difficult to patch your driver for more convenient values.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk