-1 Timeout and Offline Switch set to Job_Control

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zoggins
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-1 Timeout and Offline Switch set to Job_Control

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I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what. I have a Cromemco Z-2 hooked up to the retroprinter. It works with the default configuration, but it often exceeds the 4 second timeout and splits up a print into multiple print jobs. I wanted to control when the print job had "ended" so I set the timeout to -1 and set the offine_switch setting to Job_Control. However it no longer prints anything. I do the printing i want and then I toggle the switch and nothing shows up in the raw folder or the pdf folder. Again, I must be doing something wrong, but I have no idea what it is.

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Re: -1 Timeout and Offline Switch set to Job_Control

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I might need to test the job_control setting with timeout of -1 from memory it has only been tested with a long timeout say 4 hours!
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Re: -1 Timeout and Offline Switch set to Job_Control

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Well I just tried it with 120 seconds and still nothing. It waits the full timeout before anything appears on the drive.
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Oops - yes, there has been a bug introduced when I rewrote this routine - it has been fixed now and I will send the updated executable.
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Oops - yes, there has been a bug introduced when I rewrote this routine - it has been fixed now and I will send the updated executable.
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