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9 Oct 2024 09:58:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mysteries of the universe  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 4 Sep 2009 10:44:51
Message: <4aa127e3@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:35:38 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 3 Sep 2009 20:56:26 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>One of the things that made it interesting was that each table had two
>>printers on it that shared a print queue.  The way HG would print, you
>>could end up with half the graphic on one printer, and half on the
>>other. :-)
> 
> Oops! :)

Yeah, that was a fun one, but turned out to be a simple solution.  Just 
had to increase the timeout on the CAPTURE command (this was a NetWare 
2.15 system).  The systems were slow enough that they'd generate part of 
the print out, send it, and then generate the next part.  Each part 
generally took about 20 seconds to generate, and the default timeout IIRC 
was 5 or 10 seconds.

Ah, the good old days. :-)

Jim


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