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Article #1951Re: Printer Timeouts/BIOS/MS-DOS 3.3
From: Timo Salmi LASK
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 1990 17:43
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 1990 17:43
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In article <1945@trlluna.trl.oz> p.campbell@trl.oz.au (Peter Campbell) writes: > >Hello, all. Here at the Research Labs we are having a problem with >MS-DOS printer timeouts, and I was wondering if anyone out there could >help us. ... rest deleted for brevity ... The term timeout is somewhat misleading here, since, as far as I understand, it is rather retry attempts than a fixed timeout. The default number of retrys before giving up trying to print is 20. This default is a feature of the PC, not the printer. It can be changed by memory address programming, and personally I have scaled the retrys down to 3 times only. If you want the utility to do this it is called SETPRT.EXE and it is contained in /pc/ts/tsutld17.arc package (but no source code available). The package can be obtained by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!tut!funic!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Printer Timeouts/BIOS/MS-DOS 3.3 Keywords: Printer, BIOS, MS-DOS, Timeouts Message-ID: <1990Jul25.174317.25070@uwasa.fi> Date: 25 Jul 90 17:43:17 GMT References: <1945@trlluna.trl.oz> Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 21