Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:39:10 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Printing to off-line printer in 2.4.0-prerelease |
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:20:43PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > to start with, fall into parport_write anyway (it will just time out
As noted yesterday falling into parport_write will silenty lose data when the printer is off.
If it's not feasible to make parport_write reliable against power-off printer, then I recommend to loop in interruptible mode before entering the main loop (waiting the printer to power-on) like in latest patch from Peter.
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