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Postscript Time-Out Command
DocumentID: 634144
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:03:34 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: A customer with an AST Turbolaser PS has been told by a couple of operators to put the postscript time-out file into his AUTOEXEC.BAT file or to start WordPerfect with a batch file containing this file. THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE AND WOULD WEAR OUT THE EPROM CHIP. If the customer's problem is not fixed permanently by running this file once then another cause should be searched for. In this customer"s case it appears that it may be a faulty switch box or a TSR.

In case you wonder which file I"m talking about, it"s the file with 0 60 0 setdefaulttimeouts in it. If the customer can"t even start printing before the printer shuts off again, this could be a cure. If the customer can print half a dozen pages, then this time out thing is not the problem. His print job was stopping when his printer was managing an internal font swap, which is not the same thing at all. His EPROM can be changed 10,000 times. Judging from the number of times he enters WordPerfect in a day, he would have had an expensive replacement within a year. The AST technical support person warned him about this.

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