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Date:	Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:51:46 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Win-OS/2 glacial printing (was: how read RTF documents ? [write.exe])

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> > How come my cursor is now high-speed after
> > opening and closing write.exe?
>
> It's totally freaked out over how antiquated your
> setup is, and is running for its life.

Well that's just great. And that's probably the reason my spooler
(driving five LaserJet II's) dropped to ONE PAGE PER HOUR after running
write.exe in a Win-OS/2 session. I gave it ten pages to print (from EPM
and Mozilla), came back eight hours later, and it still had two pages to
go. The front panel green light was still flashing so I know data was
moving. I checked the cpu meter (Pulse) and it was at zero, so nothing
was hogging the cpu. And I ran SmartBar to check further, but the only
running process was Pulse. I don't have a parallel port monitor
(anybody know of one?) so I don't know how fast the data was moving.

The cursor is too fast and the printer is too slow. How do I "flush"
any hanging Win-OS/2 stuff without rebooting? (My bootup takes 14
minutes, plus I have to close everything and then restart them.)

- Peter

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