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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Screen Dump Stuff
Message-ID: <1432@atari.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 08:13:55 GMT
References: <8904012328.AA04233@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <8904012328.AA04233@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UNCSPL@UNC.BITNET ("Scott P Leslie") writes:
|Atari,
|   Could someone there comment on whether the TOS 1.4 hangs for
|30 seconds when ATL-HELP is inadvertantly pressed and the printer
|is not ready?
 
  The 30 second "hang" is a required timeout for dot matrix printers.
Yes, TOS 1.4 still does it, because it is necessary.  Even if you press
ALT-HELP a second time to cancel the screendump, the print screen routine
will do the timeout.



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