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From: zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A. Zook  x4206)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Hacking Chooser limits
Keywords: printer chooser
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.190651@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Mar 91 01:06:51 GMT
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Reply-To: zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A. Zook  x4206)
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We have just gone from 14 to 19 printers in our appletalk zone.  We noticed
that chooser will only display 14 printers at a time.  We have 5 zone numbers
all with the same zone name, which worked just great until we added the last
5 printers.  For various reasons we do not want to split up into more zone
names.

It looks like what chooser is doing is it displays the first 14 names it
gets and then each time a zone sends an update (once every 10 seconds)
the printers from that zone are added to the bottom of the list and
other
printer are removed to make the total 14.  I have not been able to
determine
how it decides which printers to remove.

Does anybody know how to "hack" the chooser so it can hold more that
14 names at a time?

We also have a copy of "The Namer" (a printer naming program) that can
only display 16 printers at a time.  A "hack" for this would also be
nice.

We are running version 6.0.5 of the system.  And version 2.0 of "The
Namer". 
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Craig Zook   -   zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
Systems Engineeering and Administration
McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Corp. - Engineering Services Division
(713) 283-4206