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From: naughton%wind@Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Error: timeout - how can I change time limits?
Summary: 'statusdict begin 0 setjobtimeout end'
Keywords: NeWS timeout setjobtimeout
Message-ID: <73993@sun.uucp>
Date: 21 Oct 88 16:32:05 GMT
References: <246@cui.UUCP>
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Reply-To: naughton@sun.com (Patrick Naughton)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <246@cui.UUCP> dimitri@cui.UUCP (KONSTANTAS Dimitri) writes:
>
>Here is my contribution to NeWS problems:
>I have a big raster image (1536x2048x8) which I wount to
>see with the showimage program.
>But it seems that the time limits are rather small for loading
>the image: I always get a
>	Proccess: ...... Error: timeout
>	Stack: canvas(1536x2048,unmapped,root,retained)
>	Executing: readcanvas
>The question is obvious: how can I change the time limits?
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Dimitri Konstantas 			| UUCP : mcvax!cernvax!cui!dimitri
>Centre Universitaire d'Informatique 	| EARN : dimitri@cgeuge51.bitnet
>Univeristy of Geneva			| EAN  : dimitri@cui.unige.ch
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Put this in your user.ps:

statusdict begin
    0 setjobtimeout
end

% "0 setjobtimeout" means never time out...
%        ...a dangerous practice in general, but it will solve your problem.

This is documented on page 304 of the red book.  The default timeout for
NeWS 1.1 is 15 seconds.

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