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Re: Impression and PDrivers: Messages

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From: Lord Yak Da Hairy
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:17
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In article <Bw42Ds.DIo@dcs.ed.ac.uk> gst@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Taylor) writes:
>I have written a module which keeps a log of all file operations, using this
>I notice that when dragging the vertical scroll bar (continuous drag on)
>something opens and closes the PDrivers:Messages file many many times.
>It does not happen with any other task, only Impression.

I'm just guessing, but could this be something to do with Impression's
displaying the current print borders, and continually polling the printer
driver to see if they've changed?

Does it still do it if you turn "Display print borders" off in
Preferences?

-- John Yeates (Lord Yak Da Hairy) ---------------- johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk --
-- ...THIS definitely takes, eats and shits the cake. - allane@unsw.oz.au --
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