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From: "D. Brownlee" <ancipites@ear...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] problems
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:04:37 -0700

I recently suggested a change without knowing
too much about how Plan 9 drivers work. Perhaps,
when 'Fpe' is detected, 'tsleep' should be called.
(wouldn't want to hang the whole system until someone
adds some more paper!) Or is the driver scheduled
independently? It is probably best to call 'tsleep'
in any case.

D. Brownlee


Russ Cox wrote:
> 
>         1. My printer's paper tray doesn't hold enough sheets to
>         print the manuals. It looks as though, in devlpt.c, that
>         outch() doesn't check for Fpe when it finds an error. This
>         was encountered when trying to print vol1.ps.
> 
> That has always annoyed me.  If you
> tell me what the code should be I'll fix it.
> 
> Russ