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Article #37745Re: Screen Dump Stuff
From: Ken Badertscher
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 08:13
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 08:13
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!kbad 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 Lines: 17