missed someone in FP Room

[GCC Consulting]

> > 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.
> 
>
Or it could be as simple as not having a -u if the other programs access the
file being printed from.

It would be interesting to know the configuration of the system.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting