Hi Per,
You wrote:
> Greetings,
> When paper is out or jammed in printers when we're doing our nightly
> printouts we get console-messages for 10 minutes (one 'LDEV XXX not
> ready' per minute) before the device is stopped (whith a bunch of
> console errors/warnings). If an operator is there to fix the
> printer-problem before the 10 minutes the printer can simply be put
> on-line, otherwise (10 minutes is not long) someone has to do a
> :startspool XXX.
> My question is if this behaviour is somehow configureable? Could we
give
> operators 20 (or 30) minutes? Or is there something I'm missing or
> something else I can do?
>
> tia
> /per
> (957RX, MPE 5.0, LaserJet 3si serial-card-connection to DTC)
>

You are describing the standard behaviour of printer type 26, defined in

TT26.PUB.SYS (Do not modify this file!) You can configure the DTC port
as type 22 (defined in TT22.PUB.SYS) and you will only get one message
while the spooler will stay up. If you want to configure something
in-between, use TTUTIL to modify 'Printer Control' in a copy of TT26
(say TT26X).
Then define TT26X as the printer type file name on screen 'DTS Printer
Profile' of NMMGR.
** OOPS **: I just noticed the LJ3si - do you have a special serial
interface supporting 'status check'? If not, you must be using a
modified term type 18 file already. See how you go!
Regards
Fred Metcalf
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