missed someone in FP Room

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:24:52AM -0400, John Esak thus spoke:

> I was in the FP Room a few minutes ago and someone named
> "scottco" logged in. I said "hello" and did not get any
> response... so a few seconds I wrote in text "hello"... still
> no response for a couple minutes... so I figured they were just
> coming to use the file sharing area or do something else and
> went out into my outer office. I got involved in a meeting and
> 10 minutes later I came back and found that scottco had left
> a question about filePro... Why does his printer count down a
> record at a time and lock them out of doing anything else while
> this happens... then when output is done they can work again.
> I'm pretty sure this can be solved pretty easily, either here
> or there... but I wanted to apologize for not hanging around
> long enough....

This no toher info I'm guessing this is on an MS machine, and is
pre-XP or pre Win2K . I've seen this in the past and part had to
do with network performance. I'm also guessing it is a network
printer as most seem to use that mode today.

To solve that problem I redirected the print output to a file on
the local machine, and then printed that file to the network
printer.  It took total print to file time down to 15 minutes
from 4+ hours.  It was a big report.

And the old MS variants were tryly synchronous and insisted on
doing one job at a time and keeping all other things at bay until
done.




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